History of the Microscope and the Cell

By OliviaDickinson

  • First Microscope

    First Microscope
    Hans and Zacharias Jansen created the first microscope

  • Cells

    Cells
    Robert Hooke discovered cells

  • Cell Theory

    Cell Theory
    Matthias Schleiden states that plants are made from cells

  • Cell Theory

    Cell Theory
    Theodore Schwann comes to discover that animals are made of cells.

  • Cell Theory

    Cell Theory
    Rudolph Virchow finds out all living things come from other living things.

  • Starts to Build First Electron Microscope

    Starts to Build First Electron Microscope
    Ernest Ruska starts to build the first electron microscope

  • Scanning Tunneling Microscope

    Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer made the first scanning tunneling microscope.

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binning each won a quarter of the nobel prize in physics. Ernst Ruska won the other half for creating the first electron microscope.