Important Cell Biologists

Zacharias Jenson

Discovered the compound microscope

Galileo

Made important improvements to the microscope; observed four of Jupiter’s moons and saturn’s rings

Zacharias Jenson

Discovered the compound microscope

Galileo

Made important improvements to the microscope; observed four of Jupiter’s moons and saturn’s rings

Robert Hooke

Observed minute bodies through a microscope and drew them; published Micrographia

Antione von Leuwenhoek

Had a strong magnifying glass and was very secretive about how he made it; observed animal sperm and microorganisms (aminacles)

Theodore Shwann and Matthias Schleiden

Botanist and Zoologist; observed how plants and animals contain cells

Edmond Beecher Wilson

Studied embryology; looked to the cell to understand biological problems; took very detailed drawings; chromosomal processes of development; showed XY-sex determination; cells inheret material to determine what kind of cell it will be; cell to cell communication, signalling, and influence

George palade

Father of modern cell biology; Differential centrifugation; electron microscopy; isolated organelles through centrifugation; studied hepatocyet GP RER and pancreatic cells + insulin