Cell History

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    English physist, Robert Hooke, noticed tiny little "chambers"/"monastary rooms" which looking at a cork under a microscope, he called them cells.
  • Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek
    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek notices little organisms while looking at pond water under a microscope.
  • Leeuwenhoek blood cells

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek observes blood cells and describes the cell nucleus
  • François-Vincent Raspail

    François-Vincent Raspail proposes the ideas that cells form from other cells
  • Pierre Turpin

    Observes cell division
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown names the cell nucelus and introduces its importance in fertalization
  • Schleiden

    Schleiden
    Matthias Schleiden came up with the conclusion that all plants are made up of cells
  • Hugo von Mohl

    Hugo von Mohl describes mitosis in plants
  • Schwann

    Schwann
    Theodor Shwann comes up with the conclusion that all animals are made up of cells
  • Virchow

    Virchow
    Rudolph Virchow summarized that all cells are created from existing cells
  • Robert Remak

    Robert Remak discovers a way to isolate the cell membrane and proves that it divides a cell
  • Virchow

    Robert Virchow endorces cell division and explains its importance in pathology
  • Anton Schneider

    Anton Schneider decribes chromosomes in cell division
  • Golgi

    Golgi
    Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus
  • Plowe

    Janet Plowe demonstrates that the cell membrane is a physical feature