Cell theory

By Steven.Reed
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    Aristotle

    Dissected organisms and classified them.

  • Zacharias Jansen

    Invented first compound microscope

  • Jan Baptist van Helmont

    Chemist who identified different gasses such as carbon dioxide

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Made improvements to the microscope by grinding out better lenses.

  • Robert Hooke

    Discovered cells.

  • Lorenz Oken

    Stated all living things are made of cells.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Discovered germs and bacteria make us sick.

  • Robert Brown

    Discovered nucleus of plant cells.

  • Matthias Schleiden

    Co-Founder of cell theory.

  • Theodor Schwann

    stated that new plant cells formed from the nuclei of old plant cells

  • Albrecht von Roelliker

    Discovered sperm cells and egg cells are actually cells.

  • Rudolf Virchow

    Added to the cell theory that all living cells originate from other previous cells.