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Microscope and Cell Theory

  • Microscope Is Invented

    Microscope Is Invented

    The microscope wass invented around 1600. Scientists are not exactly sure who created this, but they believe it was made by spectacle makers in the Netherlands.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke submits "Microgphia". He described the word "cell" by obseving cork closely with a microscope power of 30X.
  • Antony van Leeuwenhoek

    Antony van Leeuwenhoek

    This legendary man discovered bacteria, microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, an more.
  • Another Leeuwenhoek Discovery

    Another Leeuwenhoek Discovery

    Antony Philips van Leeuwenhoek discovers protoza.
  • Rene Dutrochet

    Rene Dutrochet

    Henri (Rene) Dutrochet finds out that the cell is the building block of life forming plants and animals.
  • Necleus

    Necleus

    Robert Brown found out the nucleus was a significant factor pertaining to the cell theory.
  • Barthelemy Dumortier

    Barthelemy Dumortier

    This french man discssed the idea of cell division in plants.
  • The Cell Theory is Created

    The Cell Theory is Created

    Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden make the "Cell Theory".
  • Kolliker

    Kolliker

    Mictochondria is explained by Kolliker.
  • A New Idea is Spoken

    A New Idea is Spoken

    Rudolf Virchow said that all living cells come from pre-existing cells.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur disproved spontanious generation.
  • Walter Sutton

    Walter Sutton

    Sutton noticed that chromosomes split during mitosis.
  • Walther Flemming

    Walther Flemming

    Mitosis is discovered.
  • Koch Uses Aniline

    Koch Uses Aniline

    Koch uses aniline dyes to figure out the bacteria that caused the diseases TB and cholera.
  • Wilhelm Roux

    Wilhelm Roux

    Wilhelm Roux introduced the idea that every chromosome had a different set of heritable elements.
  • Double-helix Proposed

    Double-helix Proposed

    Watson and Crick announce the structure of DNA double-helix.
  • A New Microscope

    A New Microscope

    The first commercial Scanning Electron Microscope is made.
  • Clones

    Clones

    Sheep are cloned for the first time.
  • Mice are Cloned

    Mice are Cloned

    During this year, mice are cloned.
  • Genome

    Genome

    The human genome DNA procedure draft is complete.