Cell Theory Time Line

  • Hans and Zacharias Janssen

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen
    Han's and Zacharias Jansen were lens crafter's that created the first microscope
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton was another scientist that made his own type of microscope and observed what he called animalacules.
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    A European scientest that observed a cork and saw structures that look like the cells that monks would live in. Therefore the creation of the term cell.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    Matthias SchLeiden was one of the co-founders of the cell theory.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown
    Robert brown an English botanist first discovered the nucleus in cells.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Theodor Schwann was a scientist that stated that all plant tissue is made up of cells.Then later discovered that all tissues were made up of cells.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    Concluded that cells come from other cells and helped with the cell theory.