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Hans and Zacharias Jenssen
They created the first compound microscope -
Robert Hooke
Uses the words cells to describe what he sees in cork "dead cells first seen" -
Anton Van Leeuwehoek
He improved the microscope discovered bacteria "living cells" -
Matthias Schleiden
Matthias Schleiden proposed that all plants are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
He found out that all animals are made of cells. He also stated that cells a re basic units of life. -
Rudolf Virchow
He believed that all cells come from other living cells. (He copied this from a less famous scientist).
