Harper's Cell Theory Timeline

  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen

    Made first compact microscope
  • Issac Newton

    Issac Newton

    Newton said that all cells were the basic unit for plants and improved the microscope.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Dutch draper and scientist that created a microscope to count threads. Called cells anmalcules.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Found cells by looking at a piece pork under a microscope that looked like cells in a monastary.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown

    Named and described the cell nucleus nucleus.
  • Mathias Schledien

    Mathias Schledien

    Co-founder of cell theory by studied plant cells. Wrote Contributions to Phythogenesis.
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann

    German scientist that discovered Schwann cells and that animals were made of cells.
  • Robert Remak

    Robert Remak

    Studied cell division and how cell sivide
  • Rudolph Ludvig Virchow

    Rudolph Ludvig Virchow

    Father of modern pathology and discredited the humors.The pope of medicine.