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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Zacharias was an inventor, Hans was his father and they both contributed to the invention of the compound optical microscope -
Robert Hooke
A philosopher and architect who discovered existence of cells -
Francesco Redi
A physician and poet who performed experiments that disproved spontaneous generation -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
A businessman who was first to view organisms in microscope -
Lorenz Oken
A naturalist and botanist who proposed a different theory about cells which helped to spread the theory -
Henri Dutrochet
A physician and botanist who stated that cells were the building blocks of life -
Johannes Purkinje
A monk who discovered embryos and ovas in chickens. -
Barthelemy Dumortier
A botanist and politician who was first to observe reproduction of cells by cell division in plants -
Robert Brown
A botanist who observed the radical motion of molecules and named the nucleus. -
Felix Dujardin
A biologist who was first to group single-celled organisms and stated that cells were not hollow but filled with jelly -
Matthias Schleiden
A botanist who concluded that all plants were made of cells, co-founder of cell theory -
Theodor Schwann
A physician who concluded all animals were made of cells, co-founder of cell theory -
Louis Pasteur
A biologist and chemist who disproved spontaneous generation -
Rudolf Virchow
A physician and pathologist who was first to observe cell division, reasoned all cells come from pre-existing ones -
Max Schultz
A university professor who defined cell as a mass of protoplasm with a nucleus. -
Walther Flemming
A physician who discovered chromosomes and created mitosis -
Edmund Wilson
A zoologist and geneticist who discovered relationship between hereditary traits and cells
