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The first recorded microscope is the optical microscope. Two eyeglass makers often get credit for creating this compond microscope in 1590.
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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.
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By creating his own high-magnification lenses, Leeuwnhoek was the first be able to ovserve a living cell!
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Robert Brown, a Scottish botanist, made contributions to discovering the nuclues of a cell in 1831.
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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
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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 -
Schwan comes to the conclusion that all animals are also made of cells.
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Rudolf Virchow made a contribution to the cell theory by stating that all cells come from preexisting cells.
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Leó Szilárd Invents the Electron Microscope and constructed by Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska
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On March 22, 2011, enginners in Ohio create a microscope that allows you to observe images in 3D.
