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Zacharias and Hans Janssen created the first compund microscope by combining two convex lenses with a tube.
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Robert Hooke researched and dicovered the cell compistion of of cork and than introduced the word cell to the world of science.
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Anton Van Leewuweenhoek improved the magnification of micropscope lenses by polishing lenses.
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Matthias Shleiden discovered that plants are as well, made up of cells.
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Theodor Schwann discovered that animals are made up of cells as well.
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Rudolph Virchow came up with the statement that all things come from existing cells.