Cell

History of Cell Discoveries

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    • Dutch lens grinders, father and son -produced first compound microscope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    • English Scientists
    • looked at a thin slice of cork (oak cork) through a compound microscope -observed tiny, hollow, roomlike structures -called them cells because they looked likethe cells of monks
    • oniy saw the outer walls because cork cells aren't alive
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    • Dutch fabric merchant and ameteur scientist
    • looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings through a simple microscope (1 lens)
    • observed living cells; called some 'animalcules'
    • some of the small 'animalcules' are now called bacteria
  • Matthias Schlieden

    Matthias Schlieden

    • German Botanist
    • viewed plant parts under a microscope
    • discovered that plant parts are made of cells
  • Theodore Schwann

    Theodore Schwann

    • German Zoologist
    • viewed animal parts under a microscope
    • discovered animals are made of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    • German Physician
    • stated that all living cells come only from other living cells