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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
.created first microscope
.Dutch lens grinders, father and son -
Robert Hooke
.English scientist
.looked at a thin slice of cork (oak cork) through a compound microscope
.observed tiny, hollow, roomlike structures -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek (around the same time as Hooke
.Dutch fabric merchant and amateur scientist
.looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth through a simple microscope
.observed living cells; called some 'animalcules -
Matthias Schleiden
.German botanist
.viewed plant parts under a microscope
.discovered that plant parts are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
.German zoologist
.viewed animal parts under a microscope
.discovered that animal parts are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
.German zoologist
.viewed animal parts under a microscope
.discovered that animal parts are made of cells -
Rudolph Virchow
.German physician
.stated that all living cells come only from other living cells
