History of Cell Theory (and questions)

Zacharias Janssen invented the compound microscope with the help of his father Hans

A scientist named Robert Hooke discovered cells when he was looking at a cork through a microscope

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek made the first practical microscope and he became the first person to describe bacteria

Matthias Jakob Schleiden wrote a book where he said all plant organisms are composed of cells

Theodor Schwann determined that all living things in are made of cells or cell products

Rudolf Virchow published Robert Remak's work as his own proving all cells are made from pre existing cells

Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation. He also created the germ theory

Aristotle showed there were connections between all living things

John Needham advanced the theory of spontaneous generation at a microscopic level

Francesco Redi disproved spontaneous generation

Robert Brown discovered the cell nucleus

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