Early Microscope and Cell discovery

By Allona

  • Robert Hooke

    In 1663, Hooke observed the structure of a thin slice of a cork using a compound microscope HE BUILT HIMSELF.

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    began to construct microscopes to observe tiny objects.
    First person to see single celled organisms now called bacteris

  • Matthlais Schleiden

    Concluded all plants are mad up of cells.

  • Theodore Schwann

    concluded all animals are also made up of cells

  • Rudolph Virchow

    Proposed that new cells are formed only from existing cells.
    All of the information led to the development of cell theory.
    All living things are composed of cells; cells are the basic unit of structure and function in living things; all cells are produced from other cells.

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