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microscope
hans and zacharias jansen
janen was the inventer of the first compund microscope -
Cell first observed
Robert Hooke
- Discovered a honeycomb-like structure in a cork slice.
- He only saw cell walls as this was dead tissue. He coined the term "cell" for these individual compartments he saw. -
fransesco redi
He did the expierment to dissprove sontanious generation by showing that the rotting meat did not turn into flies as one was covered in cloth and one left out the one that was exposed to flies had magotts. -
First living cells seen
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Biologist.
- Looks at pond water with a microscope he made lenses for. -
Minature animals
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Made several more discoveries on a microscopic level,
- Publishing a letter to the Royal Society with drawing of what he saw.
- Among these was the first protozoa and bacteria discovered. -
lazario spallanzani
suggested that microbes could move through the air to cause what other scientists of the time called spontaneous generation he also showed that boiling the mircobes in a sample that no spontanious generation could occure suggesting that that no contamination was the cause of seemingly spontaneous life -
The centre of the cell seen
Robert Brown, an English botanist, discovered the nucleus in plant cells. -
development of the theory
thereodore schawinhe
contributed to the develpoment of an theory, he ststed that all living things are made up of sells and cell products -
basic building blocks
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
- German botanist
- Proposes that all plant tissues are composed of cells, and that cells are the basic building blocks of all plants. This statement was the first generalized statement about cells. -
ruldolf virchow
he was built on theredores studies.
had built on the work of therodore shwans studies and discovered lukiemeia cells and added them to the cell theroy -
Louis Pasteur
Came up pasteurization.
