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Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an English scientist who observed a thin slice of cork under a compound microscope. He called the structure of the cork "cells" because it reminded him of the rooms the monks used to live in. He only saw the outer walls because cork cells aren't alive. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
He was a dutch fabric merchant and was also an armature. He looked as blood, rainwater, scrapping from teeth through a small microscope. Anton looked at cells called animalcules. Some of the small 'animalcules' are now called bacteria. -
Matthias Schleidn
Matthias was a German botanist. He viewed plant parts under a microscope. He discovered that plant parts are made of cells. -
Theador Schuwann
He was a German zoologist who viewed animal parts under a microscope and discovered that animal parts had cells -
Rudolph Virchow
Virchow was a German physician who stated that all living cells come only from other living cells
