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Galileo Galilei
The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is credited with building the first microscope in 1625. It was a logical step for him to take from his groundbreaking work with telescopes and astronomy in 1609. Galileo creation of the microscope being a very useful items for future scientist to prove their theories about cells. -
Robert Hooke
In 1665, Robert Hooke, a British scientist, looked at a thin slice of cork under the microscope and saw a honeycomb structure made up of small compartments he called cells.He only saw cell walls as this was dead tissue. He coined the term "cell" for these individual compartments he saw. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton created a very powerful (for the time period) single lens microscope, He observed pond water. In pond scum he discovered small animals he called animalcules,or little animals (protists),and also discovered bacteria while examining scraping of crud from his teeth. Finding new discoveries and adding more advancements to the microscope. -
Matthias Schleiden
He showed that the development of all vegetable tissues comes from the activity of cells. Schleiden emphasized that structures and morphological features, not processes, give organic life its character. Schleiden also proved that a nucleated cell is the first element of the plant embryo botanist who determined plants are composed of cells.
