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Robert Hook
Hook made a book called "Micrographia", that showed illustrations of animals and plants that were broken into smaller parts. The parts that he was seeing were cell walls. He made this discovery by looking into the best microscope that they had at that time and he could see the cell walls in the cork tissue. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek was the first to see yeast plants, bacteria, life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries. Leeuwenhoek taught himself how to grind and polish tiny lenses to make the finest microscope of that time. He added to Hooke's findings by looking at new objects through a more developed microscope. -
Robert Brown
Brown was studying pollen and he noticed that small particles from pollen made a jittery movement. He read a paper from Leeuwenhoek that described what he had discovered. He added to this by calling it by the cell nucleus. -
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow studied dieses in organs and tissue. He identified different types of diseases that were caused by malfunctioning cells. He disproved Schwann's studies by proving that blood cells were actually not created from blastemal. -
Theodor Schwann
Better microscopes were being made, and he was interested in finding out how animal cells and plant cells were alike. He added to the findings of Hooke, Leeuwenhoek, and Brown by discovering a new type of cell that we now called the Schwann cells. Schwann cells were the cells surrounding the axons and neurons of nerve fibers. -
Matthias Schleiden
Schleiden worked in the laboratory together with Johannes Mueller where he studied cells. He wrote an article that added to Schwann's findings of the nucleus where he explained the importance of the nucleus of a cell and the structure of a plant cell. -
Citations (part 1)
Waggoner, Ben. Picture of Hooke's cell discovery. Digital image. Robert Hooke (1635-1703). N.p., 20 Jan. 01. Web. 5 Oct. 2016.
Waggoner, Ben. "Robert Hooke (1635-1703)." Robert Hooke. N.p., 20 Jan. 2001. Web. 05 Oct. 2016.
"Anton Van Leeuwenhoek." Cell Theory. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2016.
Bailey, Taszyn. Microscopic observations by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. Digital image. Behance. Taszyn Bailey, 20 Aug. 2012. Web. 5 Oct. 2016. -
Citations (part 2)
"Robert Brown." Famous Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Oct. 2016.
Sharma, Deepak. Picture of a cell. Digital image. Ncert Help. Deepak Sharma, 14 Apr. 2013. Web. 6 Oct. 2016.
"Theodor Schwann." Famous Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2016.
Schwann cell. Digital image. Bhavanajagat. N.p., 5 May 2012. Web. 6 Oct. 2016.
"(Theodor) Schwann and (Matthias) Schleiden." Physics Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2016. -
Citations (part 3)
Matthias Schleiden Cell Theory. Digital image. Sciencegreer. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Oct. 2016.
"Rudolf Virchow." Famous Scientists. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Oct. 2016.
Rudolf Virchow Cell Theory. Digital image. U.S. National Library of Medicine. N.p., 3 Nov. 2011. Web. 6 Oct. 2016.
