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Robert C. Hooke discovers the cell
Robert C. Hooke discovers (plant) cells while looking at a slice of cork using a microscope, he calls them 'cellula' which in english means small rooms. -
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek discovers the existence of single celled organisms and called them ‘little animalcules’.
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek becomes the first man to witness live cells under a microscope. -
Luigi Galvani, Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, and others find more evidence that the human body is full of cells using a microscope
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Henri Dutrochet discovers that everything is ultimately derived from cells and proposes hat new cells arise from within old ones
Henri Dutrochet discovers that everything is ultimately derived from cells and proposes that new cells arise from within old ones, this, however this wasn't clearly sated until François Raspail. -
Abraham Trembley observed bacteria replicate by dividing in a process known as binary fission
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François Raspail states one of the two major tenets of cell theory: Omnis cellula e cellula, which means "Every cell is derived from another cell.“, and founds cell biochemistry.
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Robert Brown discovers and names the nucleus
Robert Brown names the nucleus and suggestes its importance in fertilization by looking at cells of Asclepiads and orchids through a microscope. -
Robert Remak states that binary fission was the means of reproduction of new animal cells.
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Theodor Schwann proposes that all living things are entirely made of cells.
