How would you describe what you see below to someone else?
Robert Hooke 1665 Viewed “cork” slices under the microscope
Described what he saw as a “cell”
Anton von Leeuwenhoek (1667) Looked at pond water under the microscope Discovered “animalcules”
Henry Dutrochet Early 1800’s All living things are made of cells
Robert Brown 1831 Discovered the nucleus
Matthias Schleiden 1838 Viewed plant cells under the microscope
Viewed animal cells under the microscope Theodor Schwann 1839
Johannes Purkinje 1839 Discovered cell “jelly” cytoplasm
Rudolph Virchow 1855 Cells divide to become other cells
Max Schultze 1861 All cells have cytoplasm
Felix Dujardin 1861 Discovery of one-celled organisms