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1590, Hans and Zacharias
Hans and Zacharias invented the first microscope with two glass lenses. -
1665, Robert Hooke
Robert Hook observed the cells for first time and he called them cells because they looked like a monastery. He saw a cork with a compound microscope -
1673, Anton Van
Anton Van was the first to see living cells with a single-lens microscope he made himself. He was the one who gave the name to bacterias. -
1831, Robert Brown
Even though Robert Brown wasn’t the first to see the nucleus he was the one who said it was very important because the nucleus is a key part of each cell. -
1838, Matthias Schleinden
Matthias Schleinden said that all plants where made up of cells, not only the ones that had cork in them. -
1839, Theodor Schawn
Theodor Schawn said that also animals are made up of cells. -
1855, Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow said that cells are formed from existing cells. -
1859, Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation he meant that life didn’t just appeared from nowhere. -
1860, Walther Flemming
Walther Flemming stained cells with dye to see them better under a microscope. -
1860, Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel used a pea plant to show how genes control heredity. -
1931, Scientists
The invention of the electron microscope that helped the scientists magnify objects up to a million times. -
1953, James Watson and Francis Crick
James Watson and Francis Crick showed that the structure of DNA is a double helix. The discovery paves the way for dozens of other breakthroughs in genetics. -
1977, Scientists
Scientists took the decision of dividing Monera into to different kingdoms Eubacteria and Archaea. -
1997, Scientists
Scientists create Dolly, a clone, or genetic copy of another sheep.
