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Micro organisms were found by the investigations of Dutchman, Antoni van Leeuwen hoek. this is important because without the discovery of cells there would be no cell theory.
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First description of Cell is generally attributed to Robert Hooke.
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Robert Hooke Published "Micrographia", the first important work devoted to microscopical observation. This is important because this provides a way for future scientists to study these images. -
The idea of Spontaneous generation is definitively refuted by, Louis Pasteur. This is important because this finally over the past few centuries gives a definite origin of cells to further the knowledge of how they form.
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The Scottish Botanist Robert Brown was the first to recognize the nucleus as an essential constituent of living cells. This is important because the nucleus is very important to a cells structure. -
Matthias Jakob Shleiden (a botanist) had discovered that all plants are made up of their products, and a year later Theodor Schwann (a zoologist) Stated that "The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells; and that "there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms. This is important because this shows that all living things are made up of cells.
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In the 1850s Robert Remak and Albert Kolliker who showed that cells are formed through scission of pre existing cells. This is important because this later became the basis of the theory of tissue formation. -
Golgi developed the Black Reaction, this reaction provided, for the first time, a full view of single nerve cell and its processes, which could be followed and analyzed even when they were at a great distance from the cell body. This is important because this is the most important breakthrough in neurocytology and neuroanatomy. -
Flemming introduced the term mitosis. This is important because this provided further evidence of the deep unity of the living world. -
The Swiss embryologist Wilhelm His put forward the idea that the nerve cell