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Robert Hooke
-Discovered honeycomb-like structure in a cork slice using a primitive compound microscope
-Discovered the cell -
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Cell Theory Timeline
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Anton van Leeuwenhook
-Invented microscope that could magnify objects x270 their size
-Discovered bacteria cell in pond water (1670) -
Anton van Leeuwenhook
-Discovered protozoa (1683)
Protozoa-diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic organisms -
Cell Theory Was Published
Published in the 1830s by Thedor Schwann and Matties Schleiden -
Matties Schleiden
-Discovered the plant cell -
Theodor Schwann
-Concluded that not only plants but animal tissue is composed of cells
