Cell Scientists

By haleyharrell438

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    Created a microscope that was able to magnify up to 300 times. And he also discovered bacteria in water.

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Discovered the first building blocks of life, the cell, by placing cork tissue under one of the first microscopes.

  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    Found the importance of the nucleus, and was a co-founder of the cell theory.

  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Concludes that all animals are made up of cells.

  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow
    Proposes that all cells come from existing cells, completeing the cell theory.

  • Janet Plowe

    Demonstrated that te cell membrane is a physical structure, notjust an interface between two liquids.

  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis
    Proposed the idea that certain organelles, tiny structure within some cells, were once free-living cells themselves.