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Cell Discovery and Microscopes

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Made his own microscope and discover bacterias observing his own mouth, called "animacules"
  • Mathius Scheleiden

    Studied the plants and discovered that were composed of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Studied slided of animals cells and got and special type of nerve cell named after him, invented rebreathers for firefighters
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Cells didn’t come from other cells
  • Ernets Abbe

    invent the modern compound microscope