Cell Theory

By emma679

  • 1590

    1590
    Hans and Zacharias Janssen invented the compound microscope

  • 1665

    1665
    Robert Hooke got the name ´cell´ from looking at a cork slice

  • 1668

    1668
    Franceso Redi thought that cell could come from non-existing matter

  • 1670

    1670
    Antonie van Leewenhoek saw the first living cells in a pond using a microscope

  • 1759

    1759
    Caspar Fredierich Wolff made the theory that all animals and plants come from preexisting cells

  • 1833

    1833
    Robert Brown discovered the nucleus in plant cells

  • 1835

    1835
    Hugo von Mohl witnessed the first cell division under the microscope

  • 1838

    1838
    Matthias Jakob Schleiden came to the conclusion that all plant tissues are made of cells and all plants come from cells

  • 1839

    1839
    Theodor Schwann came up with the conclusion that animal tissue is also made up of cells

  • 1850

    1850
    Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation

  • 1852

    1852
    Robert Remak revived the theory that all organisms are made up of cells

  • 1855

    1855
    Rudolf Virchow made the phrase omnis cellula e cellula ("every cell is derived from a preexisting cell")

  • 1873

    1873
    Anton Schneider had the first real knowledge of cell division

  • 1877

    1877
    Dutrochet discovered the process of osmosis

  • 1898

    1898
    Camillo Golgi first saw the Golgi apparatus under the microscope