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Robert Hooke
This is a drawing of what Robert hooke saw in one of his early compound microscopes. It is a thin slice of cork the little tiny holes or chambers as it seems are what he called cells and we still use that word today. -
Anton van leeuwenhoek
Anton observes tiny living organisms in drops of pond waterthrough a simple microscope. -
Matthias Schleiden
Matthias comfirmes that all plants are made up of cells -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann confirmes that all animals are made up of cells -
Rudolph virchow
Virchow proposes that all cells come from existing cells, completing the cell theory -
Lynn Margulis
Margulis proposes the idea that certain organellles, tiny structures within some cells, were once free-living cells themselves.
