History of cells

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen
    Hans and Zacharias Janssen
    produced first compound microscope (2 lenses)
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Observed a coark through a compacted microscope
    saw tiny structers in it called them cells because it reminded him of monk cells
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Looked at blood, rain water, and teeth scrapings saw cells and called them animalcules
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    Observed plants through a microscope found that they were made of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    veiwed animal parts under a microscope concluded that they were made up of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow
    Came up with the theory that cells come from other cells