Cell Theory
By Gabe Biehl
Robert Hooke
The first person to discover cells was Robert Hooke in 1665. He examined small pieces of sliced cork. He noticed small pores that looked like what a monk would live in. Those were called cells. That's how Hooke got its name.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The first man to discover a live cell was Anton van Leeuwenhoek. He used a much better microscope that magnified up to 300x.
Schwann and Schleiden
Schwann
Schwann suggested that cells were the basic unit of life.
Schwann and Schleiden's theory accepted the first two tenets of modern cell theory.
Schleiden
He also said that cells were the basic unit of life. However, his theory was a spontaneous crystallization called free cell formation.
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow concluded that all cells come from pre-existing cells, completing the cell theory. But it seems as though Virchow plagiarized another scientist called Robert Remak.
Because Remak's theory was about pre-existing cells as well.