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Robert Hooke
discovered honeycomb like structure in a cork slice using a primitive microscope -
Aton van Leewenhoek
discovered the first protozoa and bacteria -
Robert Browne
discovered a nucleus in plant cells -
Matthias Jacob Schleiden
proposed all plant tissues are made of cells -
Theodore Schwann
proposed that not only did plant tissue have cells, but animal tissue did also -
Rudolf Virchow
said "omnis cellula e cellula" to a cell develops from another existing cell
