Cell Theory

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    The inventors of the microscope.
  • Robert Hooke

    Discovered cells first using the microscope.
  • Antonie Von Leeuwenhoek

    First to observe and describe single cell organisms.
  • Mathias Shleiden

    First created the cell theory and discovered plants were made of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Discovered that animals were made of cells too and proposed that all organisms are made of cells
  • Louis Pasteur

    Proved that spontaneous generation was incorrect.

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