Cell Theory

  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen
    He contributed by producing the first compound microscope
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    Cell Theory

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    He looked at cork under a microscope and disovered cells.
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    He looked at dental scrapings and discovered little things that look like animals on the scraping and callled them "animalcules" which are now bacteria in modern day.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    He found out that all plants are made up of cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    He found out that all animals are made of cells.
  • Rudolph Verchow

    Rudolph Verchow
    He discovered that all cels are from preexisting cells.