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The Cell Theory

  • Contribute #1

    The microscope was built by Zacharias Janssen, probably with the help of his father Hans.
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    The creation of a theory.

  • ''contribute #2

    Robert Hooke's investigated the colours of membranes and of thin plates of mica, and established the variation of the light pattern with the thickness of the plates.
  • Contribute #3

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674),
  • Contribution #5 - Theodor Schwann

    He discovered the digestive enzyme pepsin.
  • Contributions of Phytogenesis - Matthias Schleiden

    Schleiden wanted to make cell formation analogous to crystal formation, and published his results in Beiträge zur Phytogenesis.
  • Contribution #7 - Rudolph Virchow

    In 1839, he extended Schleiden's cell theory to animals, stating that all living things are composed of cells.
  • Contribution #8 - Rudolph Virchow

    He summarized the cell theory with the Latin phrase "omnis cellula a cellula" (all cells arise from cells).