The history of the discovery of CELLS!!!

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Birth Date

  • Robert Hooke Birth Date

  • Robert Hooke's work

    Robert Hooke discovers the cells
  • Robert Hooke Death Date

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Death Date

  • Matthias Schleiden Birth Date

  • Theodor Schwann Birth Date

  • Rudolf Virchow birth date

  • Matthias Schleiden

    States that new plant cells are from the nuclei of old plant cells
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Accepted the evidence of cell division and published it
  • Matthias Schleiden Death Date

  • Theodor Schwann

  • Rudolf Virchow death

  • Lynn Margulis

    Not dead yet.
  • Lynn Margulis Book

    Her book, "Origin of Eukaryotic Cells", is published in the 1970's.