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Cell Timeline

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    He discovered cells by looking into cork with 50x microscope.
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    (Date shown is his major research time)
    He is known as "The Father of Microbiology". He is best known for improving lots of microscopes and researching on cells. Identified bacterias and organelles of cell.
  • Felice Fontana

    Felice Fontana
    He is known as Italian Physicist who discovered Water Gast Shift reaction. but for biology he discovered in 1766, that Nucleus is equipped with nucleoli.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown
    He is botanist from Scotland who described the nucleus of cell for the first time and discovered Brownian Motion. It was reported at 1833.
  • Felix Dujardin

    Felix Dujardin
    He is French Biologist known for researching Single Cell animals and grouped them as "Rhizopoda"
  • T.Schwann and M.Schleiden

    T.Schwann and M.Schleiden
    Both of them had their individual research but they put their research together to make "Cell Theory"
  • R.Virchow

    R.Virchow
    He did Scientific Contribution to Cell Theory. He published that "Every cells originates from another existing cell like it".
  • James Till and Ernest McCulloch

    James Till and Ernest McCulloch
    James Till and Ernest McCulloch Identifies and names it stem cell at 1963
  • Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis
    She developed the theory of the origin of eukaryoitc organelle, and contributed to endosymbiotic theory which is now accepted.