Jake's Cell Discovery Timeline

By jmarohn91

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    First to describe microorganisms in a drop of pond water

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Hooke founds and names cells, first to view cells through a microscope and publishes his book "Micrographia", which contains his drawings of cork cells

  • Jan Swammerdam

    1668 observed and described red blood cells

  • Henri Dutrochet

    discovered the process of cell osmosis

  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    Schleiden concludes that all plants are made up of cells

  • Theodor Schwann

    Schleiden concludes that all plants are made up of cells

  • Rudolf Virchow

    Virchow concludes that all cells come from existing cells, completing the cell theory

  • Janet Plowe

    Plowe demonstrates that a cell membrane is a physical structure, not an interface between two liquids

  • Lynn Margulis

    Margulis proposes the idea that certain organelles were once free-living cells themselves