Biology Timeline

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  • first microscope built with single lens

    first microscope built with single lens

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek, dutch microscope maker is born.

  • Robert hooke, English scientist is born.

  • Robert Hooke discovers cells "little boxes".

  • Van Leeuwenhoek sent letters to British Royal Society describing microscopic observations

  • Van Leeuwenhoek sent piece of cork with other samples to British Royal Society-observations

  • Van Leeuwenhoek made the most powerful microscope at that time

  • Van Leeuwenhoek’s work became published

  • -Robert Hooke dies

  • Andton Van Leeuwenhoek dies

  • Chester Moor Hall solved problem of lens abbreviation

  • Technique of Moor hall is put to microscopes

  • Botanist Matthias Schelidien is born

  • Zoologist Theodore Schwann is born

  • Physican Rudolf Virchow is born

  • Matthias Schelidien concludes, all plants are made of cells

  • Theodore Schwann concludes all animals are composed of cells

  • Rudolf Virchow concludes all cells come from other cells

  • Matthias Schelidien dies

  • Theodore Schwann dies

  • Germana Tomis used red dye observe contents of cells-mitosis

  • Hans Krebs, identifier of Krebs cycle, is born

  • Rudolf Virchow dies

  • Calvin Melvin, identifier of Calvin cycle, is born

  • First electron microscope is invented

  • Japanese student, Shinya Inoe, helped invent techniques to observe dynamics of living cells. This tool improved microscope to confirm spindle fibers are in cells.

  • The Lives of a Cell, a book about organelles in cells and how a person could be made of these tiny organelles, becomes published by the author Lewis Thomas.

  • Spindle fibers are isolated from living cells, since they were identified as specialized microtubules

  • Melvin Calvin dies

  • First scanning microscope which tunnels objects in the microscope, becomes invented

  • Hans Krebs dies