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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 -
A toy maker who discovered the microscope, considered to be the father of microbiology. -
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. -
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. -
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/