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Zacharis Jannson invents the first microscope which helped because you can only see cells with a microscope
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Using a primitive version of a microscope Robert Hooke he saw some dead cells on a cork and using the latin word cella or small rooms because of the small compartments he called them cells.
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Using custom microscope lenses Anton van Leeuwenhoek sees the first living cells in some pond water
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden discovers the nucleus of plant cells
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Theodon Schwann thought that both plants and animals are composed of cells and made a theory that said 1- all organisms are composed of at least one cell and 2- cells are the basic unit of structure and function for living things.
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Rudolf Virchow added to the cell theory that all cells only come from other cells.