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Zacharias Janssen
in 1595, Zacharias Janssen possibly with the help of his father Hans, invented the compound microscope. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke saw the dead cl walls of a plant and named each compartment a "cell". he discovered the first cell -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek wass the first to witness a live cell under a microscope. -
Charles Francois Brisseau de Mirble
Charles Francois Brisseau de Mirbel was the first to recognize that each plant cell is contained in a continuous membrane. -
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Thedor Schwann/Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Thedor Schwann and Mattias Jakob Schleiden proposed that all living things are composed of cells and cell product. -
Rudolph Virchow
Rudolph Virchow declared that all living cells arise from other living cells.
