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Athansius Kircher saw decaying tissue in maggots and living creatures. -
Robert Hooke published a book called Mircrographia and in that book he created the term cell for these things the scientist were seeing under the microscopes. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek examined water under a microscope and found bacteria. -
Robert Brown found cells in plants extending the knowledge they are in all living things. -
Robert Brown also found out an organelle in cells, called the nucleus. -
Matthais Jakob Shleiden a botanist and Theodore Schwann a zoologist collaborate to determine what cells are -
Chleiden and Schwann determined that all living things are made up of cells and cells are the smallest units. They could not agree if of their origin, whether they come from other cells or from nowhere. -
Rudolf Virchow and Albert Kolliker furthered the cell theory and stated that cells are formed from living cells. -
Wilhelm His formed the neuron theory by using the term neurons to describe independent nerve cells therefore applying cell theory to the nervous system. -
An organelle known as the Mitochondria was discovered in cells.