Cell Theory

  • Hans and Zacharias Jansen

    Hans and Zacharias Jansen
    Early innovations in the microscope and the telescope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Hooke's Law, applied the word cell
  • Anton Van Leewenhoek

    Anton Van Leewenhoek
    The bacteria, large selenomonads from the human mouth
  • Matthias Schleidon

    Matthias Schleidon
    He wrote Contributions to Phytogenesis
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    The development of cell theory and Schwann cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow
    He is cited as the first to recognize leukemia cells