Stem cell

History of the Cell

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Hooke uses a microscope to view the first cell. He observed cork and plants. He called what he saw cells because they reminded him of the square rooms that monks lived in of the same name.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Was the first to observe microscopic organisms in pond water
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    Was the first to theorize that all plants are made up of cells.
  • Theodor Sxhwann

    Was the first to theorize that all aminals were made up of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Was the first to theorize that all cells come from preexisting cells.

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