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Dutchman, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
The particles that he saw under his microscope were motile and, assuming that motility equates to life. This event shows that aprticles create the life inside making our whole body. -
The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher
that maggots and other living creatures developed in decaying tissues. In the same period, oval red-blood corpuscles were described by the Dutch naturalist Jan Swammerdam who also discovered that a frog embryo, consists of globular particles. -
The first description of the cell is generally attributed to Robert Hooke
The first description of the cell is generally attributed to Robert Hooke, an English physicist who was also a distinguished microscopist. Hooke published Micrographic, the first important work devoted to microscopical observation, and showed what the microscope could mean for naturalists. -
A letter
This letter showed when the information or proof that particles are living organisms. This event shows a big step in cell history. -
The masterful experiments of the Italian naturalist Lazzaro Spallanzani
A continuity between living and non-living matter, natural non facit saltus, was disproved. -
Scottish botanist Robert Brown
was the first to recognize the nucleus
as an essential constituent of living cells. This event shows that the nucleus is apart of cells. -
A book by Karl Deiters
Contains beautiful descriptions and drawings of nerve cells studied by using histological methods and microdissections made with thin needles under the microscope. This event showed evidence of nerve cells. -
German histologist Joseph Gerlach
expanded Kölliker’s view and 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. This showed that there is more to the nerve system. -
August Forel
Introduced the term ‘‘neurons’’ to indicate independent nerve cells25,26. -
‘‘Ergastoplasm’’
. The term ‘‘ergastoplasm’’ was introduced; mitochondria were observed by several authors and named by Carl Benda, the same year in which discovered the intracellular apparatus that bears his name.