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Cell Theory Timeline

  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    Built his own microscope to look at a thin slice of cork in 1665 and saw these little boxes that reminded him of prison cells so he named them cells.
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    In 1676, Leeuwenhoek looked at water under a microscope and saw small organisms which were bacteria and called them animacules. People didn't beleive him but later on Robert Hooke did the same experiment and proved it to be correct.
  • Robert Brown

    Robert Brown
    In 1831 He discovered the nucleus by looking at cells under a microscope.
  • Felix Dujardin

    Felix Dujardin
    In 1834 he discovered something new these were protozoans.
    Not done!!!!
  • Rudolph Virchow

    Rudolph Virchow
    In 1837 he did research and proved that all cells do come from pre existing cells.
  • Matthias Schleiden

    Matthias Schleiden
    Studied plants under a microscope and figured out that plants were made up of cells. He also thought that cells just showed up out of nothing.
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    Studied animals cells and discovered that all animals were made of cells. Also he thought that cells came from existing cells.
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