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1665 - Robert Hooke observes the a very thin slice of bottle cork and discovers honeycomb-like cells.
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1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek improves the compound microscope by inventing a x270 magnification lens.
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1831 - Robert Brown discovers the cell nucleus.
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1839 - Matthias Schleiden suggests that every plant is made up of plant cells.
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1839 - Theodor Schwann states that animals are composed of animal cells exactly as plants are
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1855 - Rudolf Virchow encases that all cells come from another cell.
*Rudolf Virchow only popularized this epigram
*François-Vincent Raspail discovered concluded that cells reproduce with the use of a microscope