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Robert Hooke
A Scientist named Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork through a microscope and saw structures that he thought looked like cells. He then wrote a book about what he saw called "Micrographia". -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie was a merchant from holland that really liked lenses. He figured out a way to use lenses to magnify things by 200 times. He looked at algae with the lenses and saw "animalcules". -
Robert Brown
an English Botanist named Robert Brown discovered that there was a nucleus in plant cells. -
Matthias Shleiden
Matthias was a botanist from germany.While he was doing his studies, he started to make the cell theory. He said that all living things are made of cells and that Cells are the most basic unit of life. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor was a physiologist from germany who discovered what is now called "Schwann Cells" , the cells that protect and surround the axon. Schwann said that cells are organisms, all organisms consist of one or more cells, and the cell is the basic unit of structure for all organisms. -
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf was a doctor from Germany who was the first to discover lukemia.He said the cell was the most basic unit of structure in all living things. People recognize him for his theory "Omnis cellula e cellula" which is latin for every cells originates from another existing cell like it.
