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Athanasius Kircher
He was important because he proved that maggots and
other living creatures developed in decaying
tissues. -
Robert Hooke
Published a book called Micrographia and conveyed what microscopes could mean to naturalist. -
Lazzaro Spallanzani
He help determine that each organism comes from another. -
Robert Brown
First to recognize the nucleus and came up with the term nucleus. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Suggeste that every organism is composed of cells. -
Felice Fontana
spotted the nucleus in epilethical cells. -
Theodor Schwann
He stated that “there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms... and this
principle is in the formation of cells”. -
Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, Albert Kölliker
showed that cells are formed through scission of pre-existing cells. -
Karl Deiters
Wrote a book with beautiful descriptions and drawings of
nerve cells studied by using histological
methods and microdissections made with
thin needles under the microscope. -
Joseph Gerlach
He proposed that, in all of the central
nervous system, nerve cells established
anastomoses with each other through a network formed by the minute branching of
their dendrites.