Cell Theory Timeline

  • Zacharias Jansen

    Made the first compound microscope
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    Cell Theory Timeline

    Becky Dame
    June 30, 2010
    Biology, Summer School
  • Robert Hooke

    the first to call the spaces in corkscrew "cells"
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Discoverd protozoa
  • Robert Brown

    observes cells of a cork tree threw primitive microscope
  • Schledin + Schwann

    propose the cell therory
  • Rudy Virchow

    said that living cells come from other living cells
  • Von Kolliker

    Has a description of the muscle in the mitochondria
  • Robert Koch

    Used aniline dyes to identify bacteria causing TB and cholera
  • Ernst Ruska

    build first transmission microscope
  • Watson and Crick

    The discovery of the double helix of DNA