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Discovery Of Cells
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6th Grade
03/29/2012

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Hans and Zacharias Janssen
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Dutch lens grinders, father and son. Produced first compound microscope(2 lenses).
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Robert Hooke (1665)
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English scientist. looked at thin slice of cork ()oak cork) through a compound microscope. observed tiny, hollow, room like structures. called these structures "cells" because they reminded him of the rooms that monks lived in. only saw the outer walls (cell walls) because cork cells are not alive.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek
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looked at blood, rainwater, scrapings from teeth throgh a simple microscope and a drop of pond water (1 lens). he observed the first living cells; He called the "animalcules". some of the small "animalcules" are now called bacteria.
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Matthias Schleiden
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German botanist. viewed plant parts under a microscope. discovered that plants are made of cells.
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Theodor Schwann
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German zoologist. viewed animal parts under a microscope. discovered that animal parts are made of cells.
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Rudolph Virchow (1855)
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German physician. stated that all living cells come only from other living cells.
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