The Cell theory and discoveries

  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Jassen invented the microscope and telescope. He created them in the 1590's.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    In 1665, a scientist named Robert Hooke gave cells their name. He claimed they reminded him of a jail cell so he called them cells.
  • Anton Van Leeuwenkhok

    Anton Van Leeuwenkhok

    Anton Van Leewenkhok was a dutch scientist who made his own microscope. With his own microscope he had been discovered bacteria.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden was a German botanist. In 1831 he had discovered that every plant is contains cells.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown

    In 1831, Scientist Robert Brown discovered the nucleus that is in plant cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann created and discovered the third part in the cell theory. Which is that all cells come from preexisting cells.
  • Robert Remak

    Robert Remak

    Robert Remak had proved all cells come from preexsiting cells. He had done so in the year 1855.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow

    In 1862, Rudolf Virchow a German scientist had discovered that all new cells come from other cells that are living.
  • Endosymbiotic Theory

    Endosymbiotic Theory

    Lynn Margulis a famous female scientist, had found evidence to prove the Endosymbiotic theory. The eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells proved the theory right.