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First Microscope
Microscope History
Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias, who were spectacle makers, invented the first compound microscope by putting several lenses inside a tube. -
Naming Cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-SMCmWB1s' >Video of Cells</a>
Using a microscope, Robert Hooke saw the tiny chambers in a cork made of plant material, and named them cells. -
Living Cells
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/idrc-asb052515.php' >Current Event Article</a>
Anton van Leeuwenhoek found bacteria and other living cells in water and in himself . -
Cell Nucleus
Robert Brown was looking at plants under a microscope when he noticed an oval shape in the cells and called it a nucleus. -
Plants are Made of Cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTicXXxzQA4' >Video of Cells</a>
Matthias Schleiden, a German botanist, concluded that plants are made of living cells. -
Animals have Cells
Theodor Schwann found that animals are made up of cells. Schwann and Matthias Schleiden helped develop the first part of the Cell Theory because they found that plants and animals contain cells along with all other living things. Anton and others also found that cells are the basic units of structure/function in living things. The last part of the Cell Theory was discovered by Rudolph Virchow when he found that all cells come from existing cells. -
Sperm and Egg Cells
Albrecht von Roelliker discovered that eggs and sperm are also cells. -
Where Cells Come From
http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/12/sciences-top-10-breakthroughs-2013' >Current Event Article</a>
Rudolph Virchow, a German Physician, concluded that new cells come from existing cells.
