The People Of Cell Theory

  • 1500

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    later 1500's /Father and Son Dutch eyeglass
  • Robert Hooke

    Hooke was the first to identify cells, and he named them.
  • Aton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Because he made better lenses he observed cells in greater detail
  • Matthias Schleiden

    He concluded that all living things are made of cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    He was the first to note that plants are made of cells.
  • Rudolph Virchow

    He proposed that all cells come from other cells.

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