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Robert Hooke Discovers Cells in Plant Tissue
1665 - Robert Hooke observes the a very thin slice of bottle cork and discovers honeycomb-like cells. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek Improves Compound Micro. with x270 Mag.
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek improves the compound microscope by inventing a x270 magnification lens. -
Robert Brown - The Cell Nucleus
1831 - Robert Brown discovers the cell nucleus.
*Discovered by mircoscope -
Matthias Schleiden - Plant Cells
1839 - Matthias Schleiden suggests that every plant is made up of plant cells. -
Theodor Shcwann - Animal Cells
1839 - Theodor Schwann states that animals are composed of animal cells exactly as plants are -
Rudolf Virchow - Cell Division
1855 - Rudolf Virchow encases that all cells come from another cell.
*Rudolf Virchow only popularized this epigram
*François-Vincent Raspail discovered concluded that cells reproduce with the use of a microscope
