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Cell Theory Over Time
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Hooke, Rudolph
Discovered the cellualar composition of cork. He first named the new discovery pores, but renamed it cells after the rooms monks lived in. He discovered the rectangular shapes and had first named them "pores" but the pores reminded him of the living quarters called cells he used be a monk so he renamed them "cells" -
Leeuwenhoek
Improved the magnification of microscopes by polishing microscope lenses. Leeuwenhoek improved the magnification of the microscope by polishing the licenses. From a swab of his saliva he discovered bacteria -
Dutrochet
Proposed that new cells rised from within old ones. That every cell is derived from another cell. Disproved Henri Edwards. He discovered the single celled organism called "protozoan". He watched substances excluded from the cells and named it sarcode. A.K.A. protoplasm -
Felix Dujardin
he was the first to group single celled animals and named them as "Rhizopoda" called protoza. He disproved Ehrenbergs theory which states that "tiny animals have the same organs as large animals" -
Theodor Schwann
established that all animal tissues are made of cells . He drew aponapon published information. He disproved Schleiden -
Mattias Scheiden
after studying plant structure under a mcroscope he discovered that composition of all plants were made of cells. Mattias preferred to look at plants under a microscope rather than in person -
Rudolf Virchow
built apon the work of Theodore Schwann which from there discovered that all cells come from pre-existing cells. He also established that all diseases can be traced to cells. He discovered that all animals were made from cells.
