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Zacharias Jansen
Came up with the first compound microscope and telescope Microscope became big -
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History of Cell Theory
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Robert Hooke
In England, Hooke was receiving letters from Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, who really loved all science. He named the cell after monk's rooms that were cells. But he was underappreciated as he criticised Sir Issac Newton's work as copied off his own. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Heard about microscopes and made his own. He discovered bacteria through dental gunk- he called them animalcules -
Mat Thias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann
Schleiden (in Germany) studied plants under microscopes and noticed they were all made of cells, Schwann made a similar discovery while studying animal cells, and together they proposed the Cell Theory -
Albert von Kölliker
Described mitochondria. -
Rudolf Virchow and Robert Remak
Virchow, a physician, pathologist and anthropologist, expounds his famous conclusion: omnis cellula e cellula, that is cells develop only from existing cells.
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Camillo Golgi
Described the golgi apparatus -
Siemens
Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope. -
Mice are cloned
Mice are cloned from somatic cells.