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Hans and Zacharias Jenseen invented the first compound microscope alllowing us to see things up close.
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Robert Hooke was the first scientist to refer to something up close as a 'cell'. He was also the first to se dead cells.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoeck improved the microscope by uing polished lenses. He was the first person to look at bacteria. He aslo was the first scientist to discover and write about cells
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Matthias Schleiden proposes that all plants are made of cells.
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Theodor Shcwann noticed that animals looked similar.He proposed that all plants are made of cells too and that cells are the basic unit of life.
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Rudolf Virchow believed that all cells come from other living cell. But many tought Rudolf plagiarized the work of Robert Remak an unkown/unpopular scientist.