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In 1837, however, Schwann repeated and improved on earlier experiments by Italian researcher Lazzaro Spallanzani to demonstrate that putrefaction was caused by something in air that could be destroyed by heat but not by air itself. French chemist Louis P
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He taught anatomy there until 1848 and after that at the University of Liège, but he became increasingly devoted to religious mysticism and made little further contribution to science.
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Schwann's work, added to Schleiden's 1838 book on cells in plants, demonstrated the unity of all living things. The cell theory quickly gained wide acceptance as a central concept in biology.
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Depressed, Schwann moved to the University of Louvain in Belgium in 1839.
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(1810–82). The German physiologist Theodor Schwann founded modern histology, a branch of anatomy that deals with the minute structure of animal and plant tissues
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Extracted Pespin on December 7,1810 through Janurary 11,1882
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He died on January 11, 1882, in Cologne.
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Schwann and Schleiden met on
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In 1836 and 1837, he provided evidence that living microorganisms called yeasts carried out the most common kind of fermentation.
