Cell Theory Development

  • Robert Hooke

    Hooke looks through a microscope at a silver cork and he notices what he called cells. He believes they contained the noble juices of the tree when it was alive.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek used a microscope to view many things including pond organisms, bacteria, and blood cells. He made sketches of what he observed.
  • Robert Brown

    Brown discovers the nucleus of a cell and stresses its importance of fertilization.
  • Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann

    They both CREATE cell theory. The theory states that all living things are made up of one or more cells. Schleiden published his cell theory applying it to plants and Schwann published his theory applying it to animals.
  • Rudolph Carl Virchow

    Virchow writes and publishes his aphorism "Omnis Cellula e Cellula" which means every cell stems from another cell. He theories that all forms of diseases come from changes in normal cells.