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Zacharias Jansen
Zacharias Jansen invented the microscope -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke discovered the cellular composition of cork and introduced the word cell to science -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek improved magnification of microscopes by polishing lenses -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek he discovered animal cells called "animalcules " -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria from a sample of salvia from his mouth. -
Robert Brown
Robert brown discovered the nucleus in plant cells. -
Matthias Schleiden
Matthias Shleiden discovered that plants were made up of cells -
Theodor Schwann
Theodore Schwann discovered that animals were made up of cells -
Albrecht Von Roelliker
Albrecht Von Roelliker realized that sperm cells and egg cells are also cells