Cell Theory Timeline

  • Nov 11, 1500

    Spontaneous Generation

    Spontaneous Generation
  • Zacharias Jansen

    First Optical Telescope
  • Jan Baptist van Helmont

    Jan Baptist van Helmont
    Identified Carbon Dioxide
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    First Microbiologist
  • Lorenz Oken

    Lorenz Oken
    Animal Classification
  • Theodor Shwann

    Theodor Shwann
    Discovered first digestive enzyme