Discovery of Cell Theory

Discovery of cell theory

was an English polymath active as a scientist and architect, who, using a microscope, was the first to visualize a micro-organism.

Robert Hooke

he illustrated the smallest complete parts of an organism, which he called cells.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek FRS was a Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.

Matthias Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.

Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann was a German physician and physiologist. His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals

Proposed the cell theory (and coined the term), according to which all plant and animal tissues are composed of cells, and within an individual organism all the cells are identical

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician.

Lorenz Oken

Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist.

Lorenz Oken, a proponent of natural science and philosophy, asserted that there are fundamental units of life, which he called "infusoria." His general ideas about the elemental structures of living organisms, though specifically incorrect, anticipated the subsequent identification of the cell and development of cell theory. He was also a founder of scientific congresses or meetings.

It is reported that in 1805 Oken stated that "All living organisms originate from and consist of cells"... which may have been the first statement of a cell theory.

Robert Brown

Robert Brown FRSE FRS FLS MWS was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.

He discovered nucleus while studying the process of fertilisation under the microscope, he found the nucleus in the reproductive cells. Complete answer: ... He was studying the process of fertilisation in orchids under the microscope and while studying this he observed an opaque area which he called as the nucleus.

Acel Clark F. Baroja

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