The History of the Cell

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Hooke publishes his book, Micrographia, which contains his drawings of sections of cork as seen through one of the first microscopes.
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    The History of the Cell

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    He observes ting living organisms in drops of pond water thourgh his simple microscope.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    He concluded that all plants are made up of cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    He concludes that all animals are made up of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    He proposes that all cells come from existing cells, completing the cell theory.
  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis

    She proposes the ideas that certain organelles, tiny structures within some cells, were once free-living cells themselves.