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Zacharias Jansen
Invented first compound microscope, enabling him and others to observe cells and create the cell theory. -
Francesco Redi
His work disproved those who did not follow the cell theory, therefore shaping its making. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
He created microscopes and was the first to observe a single-celled animal and to study a red blood cell under a microscope. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke Robert Hooke holds the credit for discovering the building blocks of all life. -
Abraham Trembley
Studied polyps, and realized that they just created a new individual. This was helpful in proving the cell theory. -
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Has been proven to have 'foreshadwed' the cell theory, -
Robert Brown
He discovered the cell nucleus and the cytoplasmic streaming, helping shape what we know about cells. -
Henri Dutrochet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Dutrochet
Has credit for discovering cell biology and cells in plants. -
Francois-Vencent Raspail
One of the founders of the cell theory: "all cells are derived from pre-exsisting cells" -
Matthias Schleiden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Jakob_Schleiden
He realized the importance of the cell nucleus. He also stated that the different parts of plants are cells (he was a botonist) -
Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen
He discovered cells in different species. -
Hugo von Mohl
Described the behavior of cell division. Had a good knowledge of the cell wall. This affected cell theory through the knowledge of the cells in which is was based upon. -
Theodor Schwann
Development of cell theory, the discovery of Schwann Cell in the periphial nervous system. -
Rudolf Virchow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow He was the first to recognize leukemia cells. -
Gregor Mendel
Researched genetics, using the cell theory along the way. -
Pierre J. F. Turpin
Researched cell division in algea. Picture unavailable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Turpin -
Anton Schneider
Saw chromisomes in mitosis, which somehow helped the cell theory. -
Robert Remak
http://science-of-aging.healthaliciousness.com/timelines/robert-remak-membrane-cell-division.php
He is credited for identifying the cell membrane in Cell Devision -
Loius Pasteur
Studies of microbes helped to prove the cell theory was correct. http://kentsimmons.uwinnipeg.ca/cm1504/celltheory.htm -
Camillo Golgi
http://science-of-aging.healthaliciousness.com/timelines/golgi-discovers-the-golgi-apparatus.php
Discovery of black reaction allowed others to study parts of the cells that had never been seen before, therefore contributing to the cell theory.
