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Robert Hooke
Decided to name cells, cells, because looking at cork cells he thought they were similar to rooms.
Published his most famous book called Micrographia which included drawings and his studies of the crystal structure of snowflakes, and he used the word cell to describe the cavities in cork. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hooke -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
A toy maker who discovered the microscope, considered to be the father of microbiology. -
Matthias Schneiden
Worked with plant cells and said that plants are composed of cells. He also incorrectly thought that cells came from a process other than what we know of today. -
Theodor Schwann
Worked with plant cells and recognized that animals are composed of cells, he proposed laws that plant and animal cells were the same.
Laid the foundations for cell theory. -
Rudolf Virchow
He combined what was previously discovered to come up with The Cell Theory.
He created the term “omnis cellula e cellula” which means every cell comes from another cell.
He also stated that all diseases involve changes in normal cells, which really helped with medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603088/