Cell Theory

  • Hans and Zacharias Jansen

    Hans and Zacharias Jansen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen: produced the first compound microscope by combining two convex lenses within a tube.
  • Jean Baptiste van Helmont

    Jean Baptiste van Helmont

    He strongly agreed with abiogenesis. He thought it you left out a bucket of wheat it would make mice.
  • Francesco Redi

    Francesco Redi

    He dicovered that if you do not allow flies to land on meat maggots will not appear. Also he developed controlled biological experiments.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    A new book, Micrographia, published in 1665 by
    English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), shows
    drawings of once-living matter (the lining of
    tree bark) as observed with a compound
    microscope.
  • Antony Van Leewenhoek

    Antony Van Leewenhoek

    Designed his own microscopes to examine specimens
    for himself. He designed simple, tiny microscopes.
  • Larzzaro Spallanzani

    Larzzaro Spallanzani

    Learns of Needham’s experiment and repeats it only
    boils the broth much longer. The sealed flask doesn’t
    become cloudy days later. Also people who still believe in spontanios generation say that the boiling destroys the element that it needs to make life.
  • Rene Dutrochet

    Rene Dutrochet

    He stated that growth results from both the increase in he volume of cells and from the addition of new little cells. He recognized that chlorophyll was necessary for photosynthesis.
  • Matthias Jacob Schleiden

    Matthias Jacob Schleiden

    1838 writes “All plants are made of cells."
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    Writes “all animals are made up of cells”
    Schwann also modifies and expands Schleiden’s work
    to say that “Cells are organisms, and entire animals
    and plants are collectives of these organisms.”
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    He was the first scientist to prove that cells can only form from pre-existing cells. He did this by creating an experiment that showed cells would only grow in broth if air was exposed.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow

    Writes, “Cells are the last link in a great
    chain that forms tissues, organs, systems, and
    individuals…where a cell exists, there must have
    been a pre-existing cell…Throughout the whole
    series of living forms…there rules an eternal law
    of continuous development.”
  • Ernst Ruska

    Ernst Ruska

    He built first transmission microscope.