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Period: 300 to
Cell Theory
Scince:Biology -
Zacharais Jansen
With the help of his father Zacharais would develop the first compound microscope which paved the way to the discovery of cells. -
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Flemish physican who over the course of 5 years conducted an expiriment using a willow tree to support spontaneous generation. -
Robert Hooke
He is the scientist who came up with the name cell after looking at a picece of cork through a compound microscope. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He improves Jansen's compound microscpe and as a result discovers single celled animals called protozoa. -
Lorenz Oken
Comes up with cell theory. -
Robert Brown
An English botanist who discovered the nucleus in plant cells. -
Matthias Schleiden
After studying plants he would state that all plants are made up of cells and that cells were the basic building block of all matter. -
Theodor Schwann
Defined cell as the basic unit of all animals and stated cell theory. -
Albrecht von Roelliker
States that sperm and egg cells are cells. -
Louis Pasteur
Disproves spontaneous generation with broth test. -
Rudolf Virchow
Applies cell theory to health and says that all cells develop from existing cells. -
Aristotle
A firm believer in spontaneous generation which cell theory disproves.
