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Cell Theory & Microscopic Inventions.
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Hans Janssen
Dutch lens grinder, along with his father, makes the first microscope by plaing two lenses in a tube. -
Zacharias Janssen
Dutch lend grinder, along with his son, make the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube. -
Hans Lippershey
A dutch lens maker, who ws granted "creator of the telescope", created the design and model of the first retracting telescope. -
Galileo Galilei
was able to look at the moon through his own invented microscope. -
Robert Hooke
He introduced the term "cells" to describe units in plant tissue. Initiated the idea that cells are the most basic unit of life. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Was first to describe bacteria, seen through his small microscopes. -
Matthias Jakob Schleinden
Continued Robert Hooke's discovery. Recognized all plants are composed of cells and all living things are made up of cells. -
Robert Remak
Created a chemical hardening agent that allowed him to prove observe how the membrane divided a cell, -
Rudolf Virchow
Proposed an important extension of cell theory that "ALl living cells arise from pre-existing cells." (Biogenic Law) -
Ernst Abbe
Worked at Zeiss Optical Works where specialized optical microscopic devices were produced. Created the Abbe Sine Condition. -
Ernst Ruska
co-invented the first electronic microscope. -
Max Knoll
Along with Ruska, co-invented the first electronic microscope. -
Leo Szilard
Accomplished in cresting a method of producing a nuclear reaction/ nuclear explosion. -
Heinrich
Along with Binning, invented the microsope to identify individual atoms. -
Gerd Binning
Invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which provided the first images of individual atoms on the surfaces of materials. -
Hirox Co. Ltd
Discovery of compound microscope made by company. -
Theodor Schwann
Proposed that in animals to every structural element is composed of cells.
