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Robert Hooke
He was the one who discovered and made the word "cells", when he looked at cork. -
Anthony Van Leeunhoek
He is known as the "Father of Microbiology," because he made a lot of discoveries of microscopic organisms. In 1674, he found that yeast constisted of individual plant-like organisms. -
Robert Brown
He named the part in cell "nucleus". He also was a botanist in the 19th century. -
Methias Schleiden
Was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory. -
Theodore Schwann
He found that yeast were tiny plant-like organisms. -
Rudolf Virchow
A physician that held then-radical belief taht disease originates in cells.