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Period: 1580 to
Zacharias Jansen
Is a famous spectacle maker who created the first compound microscope. He lived during the early 1600's -
Compound Microscope is Created
The Compound Microscope was created in the 1590's, making historians agree that Zacharias's father had much to do with the contraption. -
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Is a Dutch scientist who decided to save money and build his own compact telescope. -
The Cell
Robert Hooke is credited to have coined the term "cell" by looking at the dead cells in cork and being reminded of the cells that monks sleep in at monasteries. Robert Hooke has written in he was the one who discovered cells. -
Animalcules
Anton by looking at people's teeth with his microscope discovered the bacteria, protozoa, and named the cells animalcules. -
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Felice Fontana
Felice Fontana was an Italian physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. In 1774 he is said to have discovered the nucleolous. -
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Mathias Schleiden
Mathias Schleiden was a German botanist famous for realizing alll plants are made of cells. -
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Theodore Schwann
Is a German scientist who figured out that all animals are made of cells. -
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Robert Remak
Robert Remak was a Jewish Polish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist. He proved Schwann right after confirming cells originate from other cells via cell division. -
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Schwann v. Schleidon
The two scientists disagree on how cells form. Schwann believes they come from preexsisting cells and Schleidon believes cellsappear on a whim out of nowhere. -
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Paul Wintrebert
Paul Wintrebert was a French embryologist and a theoretician of developmental biology who coined the term cytoskeleton in 1931. -
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Nikolai K Koltsov
Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov was a Russian biologist and a pioneer of modern genetics. Among his students were Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson and Nikolay Dubinin. Nikolai K Koltsov in 1903 proposed that the shape of the cell is determined by the tubular network, the cytoskelton.