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Zacharias Jansen
Invented the first single lensed microscope, which lead to the theory of spontaneous cellular generation becuase without a microscope scientists could never have looked at cells so the theory wouldn't exist because cells never wouldv'e been discovered. -
Jan Baptist von Helmont
Helmont did an experiment with a willow tree that showed him that cells form from other cells. -
Robert Hooke
Discovered and introduced them to the world which lead to the belief of spontaneous cellular generation because without the discovery of cells there would be no theory of their generation happening spontaneously. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek improved the magnification of microscopes, which hleped lead to the theory, and its disproving, of spontaneous cellular generation because without the new magnification you couldn't see as many cells, thus meaning you couldn't run as many tests to aquire, or disprove, the theory. -
Lorenz Oken
Started the argument that everything living is made of cells. -
Robert Brown
Discovered the nucleus in plant cells. -
Matthias Schleiden
Discovered that plants were made of cells, which lead to the theroy of spontaneous cellular generation because this discovery intrigued other biologists so they would discover how they formed. -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann discovered that animals contained cells, which contributed to the theory of spontaneous cellular generation because this intrigued scientists by showing that every living thing is made of cells. -
Albrecht von Roeliker
Discovered that sperm and eggs were cells too, which helped disprove the theory of spontaneous cellular generation because this showed how life was made. -
Rudolph Virchow
Finally, the cell theory is proven by observing cell division. -
Louis Pasteur
Disproved the theory of spontaneous cellular generation, after 2 millennia. -
Aristotle
Invented the theory of spontaneous cellular generation, although it was later disproven.
