Cell Theory

  • Zacharias Jansen

    Zacharias Jansen
    is associated with invention of the a single-lens optical microscope and the compound 9x magnification optical microscope
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    Cells

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    published the book Micrographia
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    Discovered animalcules when he looked at pond water under a microscope
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    -discovered the infusoria
    -discovered the vacuole of the cell.
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    -discovered the bacteria in 1676
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    -discovered the spermatozoa in 1677.
    -Van Leeuwenhoek had troubles with Dutch theologists about his practice.
  • Anton VAn Leeuwenhoek

    Anton VAn Leeuwenhoek
    -discovered the banded pattern of muscular fibers
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann
    concluded that all animals are made up of cells
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    discovered that the only source for a living cell was another living cell
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    became professor of botany at the University of Dorpat