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The cell was first discovered and named by Robert Hook back in 1665.
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Fancesco Redi did an experiment to test the creation of maggots by placing fresh meat into two different jars. That is how he discovered maggots.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek had discovered a bacteria in 1676.
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Matthias Schleiden said that the cell is the basic unit of plant structure. A year later he said that the cell is the basic unit of animal structure.
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Rudolf Virchow said that all living cells arise from pre-existing living cells.
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Louis Pasteur invented Pasteurization. Pasteurization kills microbes. He also developed vaccines for chicken cholera, anthrax, and rabies.
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James Hillier invented and designed the first successful high-resolution electron microscope.