History of the Cell

  • Mircrographia

    Mircrographia
    Robert Hooke makes a book about what he saw in a cork on one of the first mircroscope
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    Antonie found little organisms in a drop of pond water
  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden

    Matthias Jakob Schleiden
    One of the founders of the cell theory, he stated that all plants are made up of cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Stated that all animals are made up of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph states that all cell come from existing cells, this was the final statement in the cell theory
  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis
    Lynn discovered than organelles are free-living cells themselves