Developement of Cell Theory

By Brianna.Berns

  • Invented the first compound microscope

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen

  • Hooke was the first person to use the word "cell" to identify microscopic structures when he was describing cork.

  • Bacteria was seen and described

    by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

  • A general cell theory was proposed.

    C.F. Wolff

  • The cell nucleus was discovered

    Discovered by Robert Brown

  • A cell theory was published applied to plants.

    by Matthias J. Schleiden

  • cells form the fundamental structure of all living organisms

    Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann

  • A cell theory was published applied to animals

    by Theodor Schwann

  • An Austrian monk, began experiments with pea plants

    by Gregor Johann Mendel

  • Mendel announced his theories of heredity, known as Mendel’s Laws.

    by Gregor Johann Mendel