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Created the compound microscope.
Jansen's Wikipedia Page -
Published his book Micrographia, which detailed many of his descoveries, including seeing cork cells and naming them.
Micrographia's Wikipedia Page -
Helped disprove spontaneous genration by showing that maggots do not form from rotting meat.
Redi's Wikipedia Page -
Saw algae and named them "animalcules ".
Leeuwenhoek UCMP Biography -
Observed cell division in algae.
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Discovered and named the nucleus
Brown's Wikipedia Page -
Discovered that all cells come from pre-existing cells.
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Created part of cell theory with Schleiden
Schwann's Wikipedia Page -
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Discovered protoplasm.
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Plagarized and published Remak's theory of all cells originating from a pre-existing cell.
Virchow's Wikipedia Page -
Disproved spontaneous generation.
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Performed many genetic experiments on pea plants.
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Observed cell division.
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Discovered the Golgi apparatus.
