The Creation of Cell Theory and the Microscope

By Bryant Madison

  • Hans Jansen

    Hans Jansen co-creates the prototype of the micro and telescope.

  • Zacharias Janessen

    Created the first compound microsope.

  • Hans Lippershey

    Hans Lippershey is "speculated" to have created the first telescope

  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo created the first telescope.

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke observes pores in a sliver of cork which he indentifies as cells.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton was the first scientist to obsrve bacteria through a microscope.

  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow co-created cell theory.

  • Theodor Schwann

    Co-created cell theory

  • Robert Remak

    Robert Rema discovered and named three germ layers in an embryo.

  • Ernst Abbe

    Enst Abbe creates the "Abbe Sine Condition" which increased the resolution in a microscope.

  • Ernst Ruska

    Co-inventor of tye electron microscope.

  • Max Knoll

    Co-invented the electron microscope.

  • Leo Szilard

    Leo Szilard patents the first atomic chain reaction.

  • Gerd Binnig

    Co-invented the scanning tunnelling microscope.

  • Heinrich Rohrer

    Co-invented the scanning tunnelling microscope.

  • Hirox Co ltd.

    Created the first digital microscope in 1986.

  • Mathieas Jakob Schleiden

    Along with two other scientists, established cell theory in 1839.