Cells

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    -Looked at a cork under a microscope and saw tiny rooms.
    - He called them cells because they reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in.
    -English scientist
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    -He lloked at rain water, blood, and teeth scrapings under a microscope.
    -Saw living cells.
    - He called them animalcules but is now called bacteria.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    -He veiwed plant parts under a microscope.
    -Dicovered that plant parts are made of cells.
    - German botanist.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    • German zoologist. -He viewed animal parts under a microscope. -He discovered animals made of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow
    -He stated that all living cells only come from other living cells.
    -He was a German physician.