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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
know as the first microboloigist, and the first to observe single celled organisims. -
Robert Hooke
he was the first person to use the word cell to decribe a unit of life, in his book micrographia. -
Matthias Schleiden
he is the co-founder of cell theory,and he pointed out that water is split during photosynthisis and not carbon dioxide. -
Theodor Schwann
cell thoery and the discovery of Schwann cells, and the invention of the term metabolism -
Rudolf Virchow
contributed to the cell theory, and was the first to reconize leukemia cells. -
Lynn Margulis
she created the theory on the origion of the eukaryotic organelles, and her contrubutions to the endosymbiotic theory.
