microscope timeline

  • Galileo Galilei

    He discovered the law of pendulum. Which was used to regulate clocks.
  • Zachariaris Janessen

    He is the man invented the first compound miscoscope
  • Robert hooke

    He wrote the hook laws which is when force is exerted by a coiled spring it is proportional to the springs extension.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He learned how to grind lenses to make them into microscope
  • Theodor Schwann

    He is known as the man who founded the cell theory
  • Matthias Jakob Schlenden

    He was the first to recognize that cells which are the basic unit of life in plants
  • Rudolf Virchow

    One of the 19th century leaders in medicine and pathology
  • Robert Remak

    He discovered and named all three germ layers of the early embryo
  • Ernst Abbe

    He was the first optical engineer was designed and made lenses based on sound theory ans scientific laws
  • Hans Lippershay

    He was a duthch eyeglass maker who was believed to have created the first telescope and sometimes was though to have created the compound microscope
  • Henrich

    He made and expansion to the electromagnetic theory of light
  • Max Knoll

    he introduced the electron microscope
  • Leo Szilard

    He pionered in the work of nuclear physics and helped in the Manhatten project during WWI
  • Hans Jansen

    helped Zacharias invent the first compound light microscope
  • Gerd Binning

    He invented the atomic force microscope which was new in the feild of microscopy