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First compound microscope discovered
This microscope was discovered by Zacharias Janssen. It had two lenses. -
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke was an English Scientist who looked at a piece of cork under Zacharias' microscope. He discovered that what we call cells. He also called them cells because it reminded him of the rooms where monks lived. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton was a dutch amateur scientist. He looked at blood, rainwater, and scrapings from teeth through a simple microscope. A simple microscope has only one lens. He observed living cells and called them animalcules. He called them this because he said they looked like tiny animals. "Animalcules" are now called bacteria. -
Matthias Schleiden
Schleiden was a German plant scientist. We call him a botanist. He viewed plant parts under a microscope and discovered that all plants have living cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann was a German zoologist. He studied animal parts under a microscope and found that all animals are made up of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow
Rudolph Virchow was a German physician who stated that all living cells come only from other living cells.
