Imgres

Cell Theory

By Gouldking

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen
    First true inventor of the compound microscope.

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Noticed box like structures in a piece of coark and called them cells from the meaning box-like in Latin.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Helped disprove the theory of spontaneous reproduction and set the starting point for bacteriology and protozoology.

  • Lazzaro Spallanzani

    Lazzaro Spallanzani
    Helped disprove the theory of spontaneous reproduction again which suggested that cells all come from preexisting cells.

  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown
    First to recognize the nucleus (a term he came up with) as an essential part of a cell.

  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Stated that "All living things are composed of cells and cell products." Able to trace very differentiated cells to their origin.

  • matthias Schleiden

    matthias Schleiden
    Realized plants are cells too and that the nucleus is indeed important.

  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    First to recognize leukimia cells.

  • Electron MIcroscope

    Electron MIcroscope
    Even better than the best of compound microscopes because it can see very far!