Digital Cell Timeline

  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen

    Produced the first compound microscope by combining two convex lenses within a tube.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Discovered the cellular composition of cork and introduced the word cell to science.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Polished lences of microscopes causing them to have better magnification.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    CitationHe discovered 'animacules".
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He took a sample from his mouth and found bacteria in his saliva.
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann

    Discovered that animals where made up of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    Sated that all living things come from other living things.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    He discovered that plants where made out of cells.
  • 3 Major Statements

    3 Major Statements

    All living organisms are composed of one or more cells, the cell is the basic unit of the organization of living things, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.