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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
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Zacharias Janssen
From - Netherlands Is a - spectacle maker First creator of the compound microscope. -
Robert Hooke
From - Great-Britain Is a - scientist/microscopist Discovered the cell and published his finding in his work, micrographia. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
From - Netherlands Is a - biologist/microscopist First person to absorb bacteria wih protozoa. -
Matthias Schleiden
From - German Is a - Botonist He said all plant tissues are composed of cells and that embryonic plant arose by a single cell. -
Theodore Schwann
From - Germany Is a - biologist Cells are organisms and all organisms consist of two or more cells = cell theory Said that cells are a basic unit of structure for all organisms and that plant and animals consist of combinations of these organisms which are arranged in accordance with definite rules. -
Rudolph Virchow
From - Germany Is a - physiologist, physician, pathologist, anthropologist Added third theory - omnis cellulae, cellula, or all cells develop only from existing cells.
