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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microorganisms. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke is the biologist who named the smallest living the a cell. -
Robert Brown
Robert Brown discovered the nucleus of a cell. -
Theodor Schwann
Proposed that "All living things are composed of cells and cell products." -
Matthias Schleiden
Stated that plant organism are made up of cells. -
Rudolf Virchow
Published "Every cell originates from another existing cell like it." -
Lynn Margulis
Proposed the idea that certain organelles were once free-living cells themselves
