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Robert Hooke
Discoverd the cell while looking a a silver cork under a microscope lens. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered bacteria while doing research for the Royal Society for years and coming across the white stuff between his teeth (plaque). -
Henri Dutrochet
Discovered the phenomenon osmosis; discovered that cells make up plants -
Theodor Schwann
Discovered that any function performed by an organisim is performed as well as by cells. -
Felix Dujardin
Based on his studies on living organisms, he concluded that many living organisms are all composed of a single cell and that the substance inside of a living organism is similar. -
Matthias Schleiden
Understood the fundemental importance of the cell liffe -
Rudolf Virchow
Idenified and named the disease leukemia while performing a microscopic examination of tissue for an autopsy.