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Zacharias Janssen,Netherlands, spectacle maker
Zacharias Janssen invented the telescope -
Robert Hooke, England, scientist
Robert Hooke discovered plant cells -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Netherlands, physicist
Anton Leewenhoek was the first ever to observe a single celled organism through a microscope -
Matthias Schleiden, Germany, botanist
Matthias Schleiden declared that the cell is the basic building block of all plant matter -
Theodore Schwann, Germany, biologist
Theodore Schwann devolped cell theory -
Rudolph Virchow, Germany, physiologist
Rudolph Virchow proved cell theory applied to diseased tissue