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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
He made the first microscope. He did see microorganisms -
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Robert Hooke
He was an English scientist who discovered the cork he was looking at had little compartments that he called cells. -
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Francisco Redi
He said that the maggots only appeared after flies lay eggs. Maggots did not form by them selfes. -
Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann
They said all living things are made of cells. -
Rudolf Virchow
He said that cells can only come from already existing cells. He observed cells reproducing -
Louis Pasteur
He did an experiment with boiling water with yeast and sugar. He discovered that micro organisms come from micro organisims. -
James HIllier and Albert Prebus
developed the first electron microscope.