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Robert Hooke and the first discovery
He was a very self-educated child and he took an assignment about insect studies at that time. With his capibilities he went more and looked at everything. While he discovered 'the building blocks' -its gonna be named cell later- and it was the first discovery -
Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek
Continued to develop microscope -
Henry Durochet
Proposed that everything is made out of cells. -
Theodor Schwann
Schwann theorized that all animals and plants are formed from a single unit, this was an insight theory by Hooke back in 1665. He wrote a book about his ideas and after that he theorized the 'Cell Theory' -
Koliker
Described mitochondria -
George Otto Gey and coworkers
After the 'molecular growth of molecular biology in the mid 20th century' -after molecular biology start developing strongly-, they found a cell line after 'Henrietta Lacks' died from cancer. -
Singer and Nickolson's Fluid Mosaic Model
Thid model describes the plasma membrane of animal cells and it has two layers.
