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Hans and Zaccharias Janssen
This father and son created the first ever compund microscope. This means the micrscope had two lenses. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
This man was a dutch fabric merchant as well as an ametuer scientist. He was the first person to use a simple light microscope. He took pond and lake water and scrappings fom gums and teeth and observed them. He saw tiny living organisms called animal clues -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an enslish scientist who was one of the first people to observe cells. He sliced through a piece of cork and saw tiny hoolow roomlike structures. he called them cells because the reminded him of the cells monks live in. -
Henri Dutrochet (1773-1874)
Discovered that plants grew by increasing number of cells. He was the first to recognize that cells are a fundemental part of likving organisms. -
Robert Brown (1773-1858)
This man was a Scottish bottanist, scientist. He Observed a centrally located in the cell he called it a nucleas -
Mathias Schleiden (1804-1881)
Matthias was a German botanist. He suggested all plants are made of cells. -
Theodor Shwann (1810-1902)
Schwann was a German zoologist. Suggested that animals not just plants anre made of cells. -
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow was a German physician. He had a theory that all cells come from pre existing cells. He is responsible for cell division
