Cell Theory Timeline

Robert Hooke

Oct 16, 1665

The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665. He examined very thin slices of cork and saw a multitude of tiny pores that he remarked looked like the walled compartments.

Leeuwenhook

Oct 16, 1674

These lenses led to the building of Anton Van Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes considered the first practical microscopes, and the biological discoveries for which he is famous. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674), yeast plants, the teeming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries.

Brown

Oct 16, 1802

Robert Brown, an English botanist, discovered the nucleus in plant cells.

Schwann

Oct 16, 1839

All living things are composed of cells and cell products.

Schieiden

Oct 16, 1839

He stated that the different parts of the plant organism are composed of cells.

Virchow

Oct 16, 1855

Rudolph Virchow suggested that all cells come from pre-existing cells.

citations

Oct 16, 2016

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