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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
They are Duch spectacle makers, father and son. They produced the first compund microscope. (2 lenses) -
Robert Hooke
He was an English scientist who looked at cork under a microscope. By doing this he realized the tiny holes and hollows looked like individual rooms. He called these cells because they reminded him of rooms that monks lived in. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He was a Dutch fabric merchant and amatuer scientist. He looked at blood, rainwater, scraping from teeth through a simple microscope. He also liked to obeserve living cells some of which he named animalcules. Animalcules are called bacteria today. -
Matthais Schleiden
He was a German botanist who viewed plant parts under a microscope. He soon discovered that plant parts are made of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
He was a German zoologist who vied animal parts under a microscope. He soon dscovered that all animal parts are made of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
He was a German physician who stated that all living cells only come from other living cells.
