Cell Theory

  • Hans and Zacharias Jansen (brothers)

    Hans and Zacharias Jansen (brothers)

    They produced the first compound microscope.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    The cell was discovered.
  • Anton Van Leewenhoek

    Anton Van Leewenhoek

    "animacules" were discovered;discovered bacteria
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    discovered plants were made up of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    discorvored that animals were made up of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    discovered that all living cells come from other living cells