Cell Theory Timeline

By taylor.nyman
  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen make the microscope
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke

    Robert Hook discovers celles
  • Anon van Leeuwenhoek

    Anon van Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek began writing to the Royal Society of London about his observations through microscopes
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek becomes a member of the Royal Society of London
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden observes that all plants are made up of cells
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann adds to Matthias Schleiden's theory, observing animals are also made up of celles
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow summarizes cell theory as "all cells arise from cells"