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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
The father and son duo Hans and Zacharias Janssen created the first microscope which consisted of two lens -
Robert Hooke
An English scientist studied a piece of cork through a microscope to find little room-like structures that he called cells. They reminded him of the "cells" in a monestary. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
A Dutch amatuer scientist looked at blood, rainwater, and dental scrapings to find bacteria that he named 'animalcules'. -
Matthias Schleiden
German botanist who studied plants and discovered all plants were made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Zoologist from Germany who viewed animal parts under a microscope then discovered all animals are made up of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
He was a German physician who said all living cells come from other living cells.
