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Microscope was invented
In 1673, Hans and Zacharias Jansen invented the microscope -
Robert Hooke publishes "Microphobia"
In his book, Robert Hooke was the first to describe and define a cell and what it was. -
Antony van Leeuwenhoek Makes Advances in the Microscope
In 1673, Antony van Leeuwenhoek made important discoveries in biology. His discoveries helped advance the microscope by magnifying images up to 30x. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhook reported that he found "little animals" through a microscope
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Achromatic lenses were created by Chester Moore Hall in1729 for spectacles
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The first discovery of the nucleus was made by Franz Bauer.
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden was the first to discover that all plants are made up of cells.
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur established the cell theory and solidified the steps of the scientific method. -
Henri Milne-Edwards made the observation that the basic structure of all animal tissues were "globules."
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Barthelemy Dumortier discovered cell division in plants.
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Cells Became the Basic Unit of Life
It wasn't untl 1839 until th cell was defined as the basic units of life. -
Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden propose the "Cell Theory"
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Donne' publishs Micrograh in France
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Rudolf Virchow continued the work of Schleiden and Schwann.
He proposed that all living cells must rise from pre-existing cells. -
Ernst Abbe publishes work on his theory on the microscope
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Ernst Leitz's microscope is introduced with a revolving mount
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Walther Flemming discovers mitosis
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Richard Zsigmondy develops the ultramicroscope
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Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska create the first Electron Microscope
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Dutchman Zernike invented the Phase Contrast Microscope
The Phase Contrast Microscope was ivented. -
Nomarsky patented a DIC system
A DIC sytem was patented in 1953 by Normarksy. -
Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invent the scanning tunneling microscope
