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Cell Theory & Microscopes

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    Cell Theory & Microscopic Inventions.

  • Hans Janssen

    Hans Janssen
    Dutch lens grinder, along with his father, makes the first microscope by plaing two lenses in a tube.
  • Zacharias Janssen

    Zacharias Janssen
    Dutch lend grinder, along with his son, make the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube.
  • Hans Lippershey

    Hans Lippershey
    A dutch lens maker, who ws granted "creator of the telescope", created the design and model of the first retracting telescope.
  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    was able to look at the moon through his own invented microscope.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    He introduced the term "cells" to describe units in plant tissue. Initiated the idea that cells are the most basic unit of life.
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

    Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
    Was first to describe bacteria, seen through his small microscopes.
  • Matthias Jakob Schleinden

    Matthias Jakob Schleinden
    Continued Robert Hooke's discovery. Recognized all plants are composed of cells and all living things are made up of cells.
  • Robert Remak

    Robert Remak
    Created a chemical hardening agent that allowed him to prove observe how the membrane divided a cell,
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    Proposed an important extension of cell theory that "ALl living cells arise from pre-existing cells." (Biogenic Law)
  • Ernst Abbe

    Ernst Abbe
    Worked at Zeiss Optical Works where specialized optical microscopic devices were produced. Created the Abbe Sine Condition.
  • Ernst Ruska

    Ernst Ruska
    co-invented the first electronic microscope.
  • Max Knoll

    Max Knoll
    Along with Ruska, co-invented the first electronic microscope.
  • Leo Szilard

    Leo Szilard
    Accomplished in cresting a method of producing a nuclear reaction/ nuclear explosion.
  • Heinrich

    Heinrich
    Along with Binning, invented the microsope to identify individual atoms.
  • Gerd Binning

    Gerd Binning
    Invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which provided the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of materials.
  • Hirox Co. Ltd

    Hirox Co. Ltd
    Discovery of compound microscope made by company.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Proposed that in animals to every structural element is composed of cells.