Cell Theory

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans Janssen helped his son Zacharias Janssen build the first compound telescope.
  • Hans Lippershey

    Lens maker credited for making the first telescope.
  • Galileo Galilei

    The first person to look at the moon through a telescope and make his first astronomy discovery.
  • Robert Hooke

    First person to study and record cells using a microscope.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teaming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood copuscles in capillaries
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teaming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood copuscles in capillaries
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    The first person to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants,the teeming of life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Discovered a digestive enzyme for protein in the gastric juice pepsin.
  • Matthieas Jakob Scheinden

    Discovered that plant parts are made of cells.
  • Robert Remak

    Discovered nerve fibers
  • Robert Remak

    Discovered nerve fibers
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Known as the "Father of Patheology", he explained the effects of disease on the body.
  • Ernst Abbe

    Invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope.
  • Ernst Abbe

    Invented the apochromatic lens system for the microscope.
  • Max Knoll

    Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska were working together to build the first telescope.
  • Ernst Ruska

    Built the first electron lens working closely with Max Knoll.
  • Leo Szilard

    First person to concieve the nuclear chain reaction.
  • Gerd Binning

    Designed the first scanning tunneling microscope with his partner Henrich Rohrer.
  • Heinrich Rohrer

    Began working on the scanning telescope with Gerd Binning.
  • Hirox CO Ltd.

    A company in Tokyo, Japan that invented the first digital microscope.