Cell Theory

By garretmoe

  • Hooke

    Hooke
    DIscovered the cell by observing cork through a micrscope.

  • Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek
    Leewenhoek discovered the single celled organism by using an improved microscope from Hooke's. This proved that organisms could be consistent of only 1 cell.

  • Dujardin

    Dujardin
    Dujardin improved upon the idea that there were single celled organisms and observed living organisms having internal substance.

  • Schleiden

    Schleiden
    Focused primarily on cells in plants. Known as the "founder" of cell theory because of his partnership with Schwann

  • Schwann

    Schwann
    During an expierment similar to Schleiden's Schwann discovered that all animals were made of cells. He also believed that cells formed from pre-existing cells

  • Dutrochet

    Dutrochet
    Suggested that cells are the most basic form of all life. He also stated that new cells arise from old ones.

  • Virchow

    Virchow
    Suggested that when an organism retains a virus that it is not the organism that is sick, but the individual cells inside the organism.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603088/