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Hans and Zacharias invented the first microscope with two glass lenses.
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Robert Hook observed the cells for first time and he called them cells because they looked like a monastery. He saw a cork with a compound microscope
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Anton Van was the first to see living cells with a single-lens microscope he made himself. He was the one who gave the name to bacterias.
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Even though Robert Brown wasn’t the first to see the nucleus he was the one who said it was very important because the nucleus is a key part of each cell.
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Matthias Schleinden said that all plants where made up of cells, not only the ones that had cork in them.
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Theodor Schawn said that also animals are made up of cells.
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Rudolf Virchow said that cells are formed from existing cells.
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Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation he meant that life didn’t just appeared from nowhere.
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Walther Flemming stained cells with dye to see them better under a microscope.
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Gregor Mendel used a pea plant to show how genes control heredity.
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The invention of the electron microscope that helped the scientists magnify objects up to a million times.
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James Watson and Francis Crick showed that the structure of DNA is a double helix. The discovery paves the way for dozens of other breakthroughs in genetics.
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Scientists took the decision of dividing Monera into to different kingdoms Eubacteria and Archaea.
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Scientists create Dolly, a clone, or genetic copy of another sheep.
