Microscope

Cell Theory Timeline

  • First Compund Microscope

    Zacharias Jansen creates the first compoud microscope
  • Inventing the term 'Cell'

    Robert Hooke, for the first time, looked at the cell wall of a cork calling it a cell.
  • Different Microscope

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looks at the first living cells in a pond with a microscope he has created.
  • Observing The Cells

    Robert Brown discovers the nucleus in plant cells proving its importance
  • Plant Tissues

    Matthia Jakob Scleiden proves that all plant tissues are made of cells
  • Animal Tissue Time

    Theodor Schwann proves that animals have animal tissues too. He also says that cells is the strucure for organisms.
  • Second Part of the Cell Theory

    Carl Heinrich Braun proves the second part of the cell theory; cells are the basics to LIFE!!!!!!!!
  • Third Part of the Cell Theory

    Rudolf Virchow adds the third part of the theory; cells only come from other living things