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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Inventors of the first compound microscope -
Robert Hooke
Hooke had discovered plant cells, he saw the cell walls in cork tissue. Hooke alsoo came up with the term "cells" the boxlike cells of the cork -
Francesco Redi
He found that rotted meat cannot turn into flies. Only flies can make more flies. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Described unicellular organisms from his observations of a drop of stagent rainwater as 'animalcules' -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Tried variations on John Needhams experiments, determined that soup in a sealed container was sterile and micro organisms caused the soup to spoil. -
Robert Brown
Observed that a large body, the nucleus was present in both plant and animal cells -
Matthias Schleiden
Created Cell theory. States that all living things are made up of one or more cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Proposed that all organisms are composed of cells, formulated cell theory of life. -
Rudolf Virchow
Stated that every cell stem has to come from another cell. -
Louis Pasteur
Experimented that soup exposed to air only spoiled if the air was not filtered.