Cell Theory Scientists

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    Scientists and Their Contribution to Cell Theory

  • Janssen

    Janssen

    Created the first compound microscope and telescope.
  • Leeuwenkoek

    Leeuwenkoek

    He made himself a microscope and started looking at many things with it.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    He named cells because he noticed that they looked like little rooms.
  • Redi

    Redi

    Disproved all those who who did not follow the cell theory.
  • Brown

    Brown

    Brown was the first to discover that the cell nucleus was the brain of the cell.
  • Remak

    Remak

    His work was stolen by Virchow so they had a fight.
  • Schwann

    Schwann

    Discovered that all animals are made of cells.
  • Scheiden

    Scheiden

    Found that all plants are made of cells. However, he didn't think that they came from prexisting ones.
  • Schneider

    Schneider

    He created the cell theory and saw chromisomes in mitosis.
  • Hugo Von Mohl

    Hugo Von Mohl

    Discovered and named protoplasm and offered a hypothesis concerning its role in cell life.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow

    Virchow said that cells did come from other cells. He stole this idea fro Remak.
  • Wolff

    Wolff

    Translated the germ plasm into English and proposed that a substance in the germ cell carries hereditory information.
  • Camillo Golgi

    Camillo Golgi

    His discovery of black reaction allowed others to study others to study parts of the cells that they had never seen before.
  • All organisms are composed of one or more cells.

    All organisms are composed of one or more cells.

  • The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms.

    The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms.

  • All cells come from preexisting cells.

    All cells come from preexisting cells.