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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
Produced first compound microscope -
Robert Hooke
looked at a thin slice of cork through a microscope
saw tiny, hollow, roomlike structures and
called these structures 'cells' because they reminded him of jail cells -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
called celles Animalcules
looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth through a simple microscope -
Matthias Schleiden
viewed plant parts under a microscope
discovered that plant parts are made of cells -
Theodor Schwann
viewed animal parts under a microscope
discovered that animal parts are made of cells -
Rudolph Virchow
Found out that all living cells come from other living cells.
He was a German physician
