Cell Theory

By emj261
  • Zacharias Jansen

    Zacharias Jansen

    Jansen created the first compound microscope by putting two convex lenes in a tube.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Hooke Introduced the world to the name "cell' and the cellular composition of a cork.
  • Francesco Redi

    Francesco Redi

    Redi disproved the theory of spontanious generation.
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek improved the magnification of the microscope and discovered animacules/bacterias.
  • Caspar Wolff

    Caspar Wolff

    Wolff proposed that all organs in animal embyos were made of globules.
  • Henri Dutrochet

    Henri Dutrochet

    Dutrochet said that all organi tissues are actually globual cells of exceeding smallness, united by simple adhesive forces.
  • Pierre Turpin

    Pierre Turpin

    Turpin reported his observations of cell devision.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown

    Brown discovered the nuclei in cells.
  • Matthias Scheilden

    Matthias Scheilden

    Scheilden discovered that all plants were made of cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    Schwann found that all animals are made of cells.
  • Hugo von Mohl

    Hugo von Mohl

    Mohl carrfully described details of nitosis in plants.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    Virchow stated that all livings things came from other living things.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Pasteur proved that the growth of bacteria is not due to spontanious generation, but biogenetics. All living things come from living things.
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel

    Mendel published his investigations of plant hybirds.
  • Anton Schneider

    Anton Schneider

    Schneider observed and described chromosomes during cell division.