Hey, I'm Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, I was a butch shopkeeper. I was the one who discovered single celled organisms and discovered animalcules, which we call today protists. I discovered all this using a simple microscope.
Hello, I'm Robert Hooke, I was an english scientist. I looked at plant cells (cork) with a compound microscope (two lenses). I noticed that cork was made of small boxes I named them cells, because they reminded me of where monks lived.
What do I call That?? 1675
200 years later...-Tech and the types of microscopes and the -magnification improves
Hello, I'm Matthias Schleiden, I was a German Botanist. I studied plants and discovered all plants were made of similar looking cells. The cells had similar shape, size and color (green). I used compound microscope.
Why do the all look similar?? 1830's
Every cell is different! 1830's
Hey, I'm Theodor Schwann, I was a German zoologist. I studied animal cell and i stated that cells were the building blocks of all living things (plants and animals). Also I noticed each type of cell has a specific function by using a compound microscope.
Where do cells come from?? 1858
Hey there, I'm Rudolph Virchow, I was a German Scientist. I looked at all the other scientist work and performed experiments. I discovered that cells can only come from preexisting cells or other cells.
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