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Optical Microscope
The first recorded microscope is the optical microscope. Two eyeglass makers often get credit for creating this compond microscope in 1590. -
Robert Hooke looks at a slice of cork through a microscope
Hooke used a microscope to observe a piece of cork and saw structures that were in the form of boxes, stacked on top of eachother. He called these cells. -
Antony van Leeuwnhoek observes a living cell for the first time
By creating his own high-magnification lenses, Leeuwnhoek was the first be able to ovserve a living cell! -
Robert Brown discovers cell nucleus
Robert Brown, a Scottish botanist, made contributions to discovering the nuclues of a cell in 1831. -
Matthias Schleiden observes plants
After the botanist obserberved plants using a microscope, he came to the conclusion that all plants are also made of cells. http://tinyurl.com/75mcld4 -
Cell Theory
People contributied to the cell theory over a period of time.
It consists of four main points:
1. All living things are composed of cells
2. All cells come from pre-exsisting cells
3.The cell is the basic unit of structure of all living things
4. The well being of an organism depends on the well being of it's states -
Theodor Schwan observes animal parts
Schwan comes to the conclusion that all animals are also made of cells. -
Rudolf Virchow States That All Cells Come From Preexsisting Cells
Rudolf Virchow made a contribution to the cell theory by stating that all cells come from preexisting cells. -
Electron Microscope
Leó Szilárd Invents the Electron Microscope and constructed by Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska -
Ohio State Engineers create a 3D Microscope
On March 22, 2011, enginners in Ohio create a microscope that allows you to observe images in 3D.
