Cell Theory Time Line

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    invited the first compound microscrope by combining two convex lenses with a tube .
  • Robert Hooke

    he discoverd the cell of cork and introduced cell to science
  • Anton-van leeuwenhoek

    discoverd bacteria from a sample of saliva in his mouth
  • Mathias Schleiden

    discoverd that plants are made of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    discoverd that animals were made of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    stated that all things come from other living things