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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
This father-son duo created the first microscope using two lenses! -
Robert Hooke
English scientist who discovered roomlike structures in cork and named them cells, after the rooms that monks stay in. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Started off as and amateur scientist and after looking at many different objects, such as dental scrapings, he discovered animalcules, now known as bacteria. -
Matthias Schleiden
A German botanist who discovered plant cells by looking at plants under a microscope. -
Theodor Schwann
A German zoologist who studied animals and discovered that animals have cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
A German physician who discovered that all cells come from other cells.
