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Robert Hooke.
(Ignore the month and day)
He discovered microscopic oganisms via a piece of cork. -
Anton van Leeuuwenhoek
Discovered and described "animacules". -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered bacteria. -
Matthias Schleiden
He discovered that plants are made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
He discovered animal parts are made of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
Stated that all living cells come only from other living cells. -
Janet Plowe
demonstrated that the cell membrane is a physical structure, not just an inference between two liquids. -
Lynn Margulis
She proposes the idea that the tiny structures in calls were once free living cell themselves.
