Cell discovery

First Microscope

Sep 21, 1590

Zachaias Janssen created the first microscope in history, it allowed Robert Hooke to use this non-developed microscope to view the cell walls of apiece of cork (corcho).

Cork

Jan 12, 1663

Robert Hooke discovered the cell, he examined pieces of cork and he saw a multitude of pores that he thought they looked like the walled compartements a monk would live. Because of this Hooke called them cells which is their actual name.

Microscope: lenses

Dec 25, 1674

Anton van leeuwenhoek taught himself new methods for grinding and polishing thiny lenses. He is famous because he build the first practical microscopes ajd the biological discoveries.

Plants & Animals

May 25, 1838

Theodor Schwann identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue. ( and he also proposed the cell theory)

Plants and cells

Aug 29, 1838

Mathias Schleiden was a botanist that determined that plants are composed of cells (he proposed the cell theory).

Confirmation

Jul 16, 1857

Rudolph Albert Von Kolliker helped confirm the view that cells arise only from other cells and cannot be generated from non-cellular material.

Nucleus

Oct 1, 1858

Robert Brown was an English botanist that discovered the nucleus in plant cells

Bone connective tissues...

Dec 8, 1858

Rudolph Virchow's many discoveries include finding cells in bone and connective tissue and describing substances such as myelin.

Mitosis

Mar 23, 1879

Walther Flemming was a pioneer of cytogenetics, a field of science that analyses structures and processes in the Cell nucleus under a microscope. He was the first person to conduct a systematic study of chromosomes during division and called this process mitosis.