Cell Theory Timeline

1665 1674 1827 1839 1855 1665

Jacob Schleiden and

Robert Hooke Anton Van Leeuwenhoek Robert Brown Rudolph Carl Virchow Louis Pasteur
Theodor Schwann
Cell first observed
First living cells The center of the cell 3rd part to the cell Eliminated the
Basic building blocks theory added
seen seen spontaneous
and Cell Theory
Robert Hooke, an generation
English scientist,
discovered a honeycomb- Anton van Robert Brown, an English Rudolf Virchow, a German
like structure in a cork botanist, discovered the Jakob Schleiden was a physiologist/physician/pathol
Leeuwenhoek, a Pasteur made
slice using a primitive nucleus in plant cells. German botanist that ogist added the 3rd part to
Dutch biologist, the cell theory. The original
significant discoveries in
compound microscope. Robert Brown was known for found cells in plants, and chemistry, including
He only saw cell walls as looks at pond water Theodor Schwann was a is Greek, and states Omnis
discovering the cell nucleus, treatments and research
this was dead tissue. He with a microscope he and gave one of the earliest zoologist that found cells cellula e cellula. This
of many diseases, and a
coined the term "cell" for made lenses for. translates as all cells develop
detailed descriptions of the in animals. They were resolution to the
these individual only from existing cells.
cell nucleus. both co-founders of the cell problem concerning the
compartments he saw. Virchow was also the first to
theory. nature of tartaric acid.
propose that diseased cells
come from healthy cells.