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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
They produced the first compound microscope by combing the two convex.
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Robert Hooke
Hooke discovered the cellullar composition of cork and introduced the word cell.
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Francesco Redi
He discovered that rotten food couldn't make flies but flies could make flies.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
He observed living cells through simple microscopes. He improved microscope by polishing cells. He discovered "anamacules". He discovered bacteria from his mouth.
He was also known in 1676 and 1683.
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Abraham Trembley
He discovered that the polyp could produce sperate and complet new animals after it had been cut in half.
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Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Helped with DNA and transfer of cell.
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Henri Dutrochet
He stated that all organic tissues are actually globular cells of exceeding smallness.
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François-Vincent Raspail
One of the founders of tHe discovered that every cell is devired from a preexisting cell.
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Robert Brown
Obseved eukaryotic cells.
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Theodor Schwann
He discovered the digestive enzyme pespin.
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Matthias Schleiden
He found that each plant part is composed of cells. He also recognized the importance of the nucleus.
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Rudolph Virchow
He stated that all living things come from other living things.
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Louis Pasteur
He had proven spontaneous generation false and replaced it biogenesis which states that all living things came from preexisting lives.
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