CELL THEORY

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Robert Hooke

  • 1665

  • observed a cork specimen and saw chamber-like structures which he named “cell”

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

  • 1676

  • observed tiny living organisms (bacteria) and called them “animalcules”

  • was said to be the first to observe red blood cells of diff animals and sperm cell

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Robert Brown

  • 1831

  • a botanist

  • he was able to compare different plant specimens

  • all of them composed of cells

  • inside each cell is a dark dense spot which he termed “nucleus”

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Matthias Schleiden

  • 1838

  • a german botanist

  • all plant parts are made of cells

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Theodor Schwann

  • 1839

  • botanist and friend of Schleiden

  • all animal tissues are composed of cells too

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Rudolf Virchow

  • 1858

  • all cells come from pre-existing cells