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Zachaias Janssen created the first microscope in history, it allowed Robert Hooke to use this non-developed microscope to view the cell walls of apiece of cork (corcho). -
Robert Hooke discovered the cell, he examined pieces of cork and he saw a multitude of pores that he thought they looked like the walled compartements a monk would live. Because of this Hooke called them cells which is their actual name. -
Anton van leeuwenhoek taught himself new methods for grinding and polishing thiny lenses. He is famous because he build the first practical microscopes ajd the biological discoveries.
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Theodor Schwann identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue. ( and he also proposed the cell theory)
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Mathias Schleiden was a botanist that determined that plants are composed of cells (he proposed the cell theory). -
Rudolph Albert Von Kolliker helped confirm the view that cells arise only from other cells and cannot be generated from non-cellular material. -
Robert Brown was an English botanist that discovered the nucleus in plant cells -
Rudolph Virchow's many discoveries include finding cells in bone and connective tissue and describing substances such as myelin. -
Walther Flemming was a pioneer of cytogenetics, a field of science that analyses structures and processes in the Cell nucleus under a microscope. He was the first person to conduct a systematic study of chromosomes during division and called this process mitosis.
