Karli's Cell Timeline

By Kawiebe
  • Vav Leeuwenhoke

    Vav Leeuwenhoke
    invented the compound microscope
  • First microscope

    First microscope
    Galileo Galilei's compound microscope was built in
  • Discovery about cells

    Discovery about cells
    With the invention of the microscope and its subsequent improvement, cells became visible and many new discoveries were made about them.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Robert Hooke discoverd plant cells
  • Schwann

    Schwann
    made contributions to biology include the development of cell theory.
  • Schleiden

    Schleiden
    studied primarily cells in plants
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    Rudolf Virchow proposed an important extension of cell theory that "All living cells arise from pre-existing cells
  • Discovery of the cell parts

    Discovery of the cell parts
    Discovery of the cell parts
    •Nucleoid
    •Ribosomes
    •Storage Granules
    •Endospore
    •Capsule
    •Outer Membrane
    •Plasma Membrane
    •Cell Wall
    •Periplasmic Space
  • Electron Microscope

    Electron Microscope
    The introduction of the electron microscope in the
  • Cell Theory

    Cell Theory
    All living organisms are composed of cells. They may be
    The cell is the basic unit of life.
    Cells arise from pre-existing cells.