1. Discovering the Cell

2. Robert Hooke Author of “Micrographia.” First coined the word “cell” to describe what he saw in a thin slice of cork.

3. Anton van Leeuwenhoek

4. Leeuwenhoek’s Microcscope

5. Cell discoveries in the 19th century Discovery of the nucleus: 1833 (Robert Brown) Description of cell division: 1879 (Walter Fleming)

6. The Electron Microscope Invented 1938 by Ernst Ruska. Allowed scientists to look into the cell in much greater detail.

7. Ruska’s Microscope

8. TEM: Cell Membrane

9. SEM: Cell Membrane

10. Fluid Mosaic Model