cell
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- The invention of the microscope led to the discovery of the cell by Hooke.
- I'm Robert Hooke, and I found out about cells. In my custom-built microscope, I was looking at a cork when I noticed box-shaped structures that reminded me of cells.
- 1665
- 1670
- My name is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, and I was the first person to use a microscope at the time to investigate a variety of cells, including red blood cells, which I can refer to as animalcules.
- 1838
- Matthias Scheiden here; I came to the conclusion that a plant embryo developed from a single cell and that all plant tissues are made up of cells.
- 1839
- I go by the name Theodor Schwann. Matthias, a friend of mine, explained to me how cells make up plants, therefore I demonstrated this fact for animal tissues and came to the conclusion that all tissues include cells in 1839.
- 1855
- By adopting the Latin phrase omnis cellula a cellula (all emerge from cells), which is essentially the second tenet of modern cell theory, I, Rudolf Virchow, popularized the idea of cell theory in an editorial essay titled Cellular Pathology.
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