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The Discovery of the Cell
A history lesson
Robert Hooke
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The English scientist
Robert Hooke, who
studied the cork with a
crude microscope, first
described cells in 1665.
He thought the cork
structures looked like
the cells that the monks
lived in so he called
them a cell
Scanning electron of a wood
Cell History
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The Dutch scientist
Anton van
Leeuwenhoek first
described living cells in
detail in the 1670s. With
the use of a basic
microscope he was able
to see things too small
with the naked eye.
Known as "the Father of
Microbiology"
Cell Theory
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In 1839, German scientist Matthias
Schleiden and Theodor Schwann formulated
the cell theory. Noticing a similarity
between plant and animal cells, they stated
that all living organisms consist of cells
and cell products. Thus, a whole organism
could be understood through the study of its
cellular parts
Cell theory
Cell reproduction history
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In 1858 the German
pathologist Rudolf
Virchow's theory, that
all cells come from
preexisting cells, this
led to the development
of cell division and cell
differentiation. He
corrected Schwaan and
Schleider.