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  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Produced first compound microscope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    looked at a thin slice of cork through a microscope
    saw tiny, hollow, roomlike structures and
    called these structures 'cells' because they reminded him of jail cells
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    called celles Animalcules
    looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth through a simple microscope
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    viewed plant parts under a microscope
    discovered that plant parts are made of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    viewed animal parts under a microscope
    discovered that animal parts are made of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    Found out that all living cells come from other living cells.
    He was a German physician