Scientists of the Past

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    Zacharias Janssen

    Made the first crude compact microscope.
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    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Made The first simple microscope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Used the term "cell" to describe the empty boxes found in cork.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    He discovered oxygen.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Studied and determined that all animals are made of cells.
  • Matthais Schleiden

    Matthais Schleiden
    Determined that all plants are made of cells
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph  Virchow
    Hypothesized that cells do't form on their own,cells divide to for new cells
  • James Chadwick:

     James Chadwick:
    Discovery of the neutron
  • NASA

    NASA
    Traces of liquid water discovered on Mars