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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Hans and Janssen create first compound microscope. -
Rober Hooke
Hooke built a microscope which he used to observe the cell walls of a cork, he stated that the cell walls looked a lot like cells, like jail cells that we know today. he named these amazing things cells after what he thought they looked like. -
Antonie van leeuwenhoek
Van Leeuwenhoek observed the first living cells in pond water with lens he created for his microscope. -
Robert Brown
Brown finds the nucleus of a plant cell and states its importance in cell creation. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Schleiden states that all plant tissues are made of cells. -
Theodor schwann
Schwann corrects Schledien on his statment, Schwann says that not only are plant tissues made of cells but so are animal tissue, he also says that cells are the basic unit for all organisms. -
Carl Heinrich Braun
Braun restates the second part of the cell theory stating that cells are the basic unit of life. -
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow adds the third part of the cell theory stating that cells only come from other living cells.