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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
They were dutch lens grinders and they made their first compound microscope with two lenses -
Robert Hooke
An english scientist looked through a compound microscope at a cork where he saw roomlike structures in it and he called them cells. They reminded them of the rooms the monks lived in. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch fabric merchant and amateur scientist
looked at some blood, rainwater, and teeth through a microscope which was 1 lens some of the small 'animalcules' are now called bacteria -
Matthias Schleiden
German botanist who discovered plant parts under a microscope which were cells -
Theodor Schwann
German zoologist who viewed animal parts under a microscope
and found out that animal parts are all made of cells -
Rudolph Virchow
German physician who said that all living cells only come from other living cells
