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Robert C. Hooke
Due to Hooke's skills in technology, he discovered a way to control the height and angle of miscrospoes. Hooke wa able to see new detail. Hooke created magnificatios of 50x allowing people of that time period to see things that theyve never been exposed to. KIng CHarles II him to do a microscopic study. Hooke was only supposed to study insects, but he took the job further and viewed a piece of cork too. He discovered empty spaces in it contained by walls, which he called cells. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek was inspired by glasses. He created methods of grinding and polishing tiny lenses which gave magnification up to 270x. He crreated the first practical microscope of his time. Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria, yeast, the life in warer, and blood circulation in capallaries. -
Henri Dutrochet
The findings of Hooke led Dutrochet to declare that, "The cell is the fundamental element of organization." He also discovered and named the process of osmosis and the first to study respiration and light sensitivity in plants. -
Felix Dujardin
Dejardin's studies of microscopic animals led to his disoverey of one celled organisms. He called these protozoans. His work led him to disproving the theory that Ehrenberg created that microscopic organims have the same organs as higher animals. -
Matthias Schleiden
Schleiden discovered that different parts of the plant are composed of cells. He also discovered the importantance of the cell nucleus and that it was connected to cell division. -
Theodor Schwan
Schleidan communicated his findings about cells in plants to Schwan. Schwan had discovered similar structures. Different researchers confirmed that it was similar. In Schwan's book he said, "All things are composed of cells and cell products.", which is now the cell theory. -
Rudolph Virchow
Virchow created the theory that all cells come from already existing cells by championing the work of Robert Remak. Virchow expanded the work of Remak and turned his findings into published lectures.
