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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Produced the first compound microscope. the microscope had two lenses. -
Robert Hooke
looked at a thin slice of cork(oak cork) through a compound microscope. He observed tiny, hollow, roomlike structures and he called these structures cells. the reason why he called them cell is because the little structures reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
he looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth through a simplemicroscope with 1 lens. He also observed living cells; called some 'Animalcules'. they are now known as Bacteria. -
Matthias Schleiden
Discoverd that plat parts are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
Discoverd that animal parts are made of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
Stated that all living bcells come from other living cells
