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Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the compound microscope
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Robert Hooke got the name ´cell´ from looking at a cork slice
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Franceso Redi thought that cell could come from non-existing matter
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Antonie van Leewenhoek saw the first living cells in a pond using a microscope
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Caspar Fredierich Wolff made the theory that all animals and plants come from preexisting cells
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Robert Brown discovered the nucleus in plant cells
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Hugo von Mohl witnessed the first cell division under the microscope
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden came to the conclusion that all plant tissues are made of cells and all plants come from cells
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Theodor Schwann came up with the conclusion that animal tissue is also made up of cells
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Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation
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Robert Remak revived the theory that all organisms are made up of cells
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Rudolf Virchow made the phrase omnis cellula e cellula ("every cell is derived from a preexisting cell")
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Anton Schneider had the first real knowledge of cell division
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Dutrochet discovered the process of osmosis
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Camillo Golgi first saw the Golgi apparatus under the microscope
