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Zacharias Jansen
Jansen created the first compound microscope by putting two convex lenes in a tube. -
Robert Hooke
Hooke Introduced the world to the name "cell' and the cellular composition of a cork. -
Francesco Redi
Redi disproved the theory of spontanious generation. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek improved the magnification of the microscope and discovered animacules/bacterias. -
Caspar Wolff
Wolff proposed that all organs in animal embyos were made of globules. -
Henri Dutrochet
Dutrochet said that all organi tissues are actually globual cells of exceeding smallness, united by simple adhesive forces. -
Pierre Turpin
Turpin reported his observations of cell devision. -
Robert Brown
Brown discovered the nuclei in cells. -
Matthias Scheilden
Scheilden discovered that all plants were made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann found that all animals are made of cells. -
Hugo von Mohl
Mohl carrfully described details of nitosis in plants. -
Rudolph Virchow
Virchow stated that all livings things came from other living things. -
Louis Pasteur
Pasteur proved that the growth of bacteria is not due to spontanious generation, but biogenetics. All living things come from living things. -
Gregor Mendel
Mendel published his investigations of plant hybirds. -
Anton Schneider
Schneider observed and described chromosomes during cell division.
