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Cell Theory and

the Scientists
Who Helped
Shape It
The Cell
The smallest unit that can perform
all life processes
Scientists and
the Cell Theory
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(1632-1723)
Used a simple
microscope to look at
pond scum.
Saw wee beesties and
animalcules
He is known as the
Father of Microscopy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_van_Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discoveries:
- 1673: He looked at
pond scum under
the microscope and
discovered small
organisms he called
animalcules or little
animals (Protists)
- 1676: discovered
bacteria
Remember teeth gunk? http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/TimLynch/sci_class/c
hap09/lesson_protista/Protista_Lesson.html#Algae
Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Used a compound
microscope (2 lenses)

Looked at cork under


microscope

Named what he saw,


cells

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Hooke.html
Robert Hooke
Contributions:
- He observed pieces of
cork from the bark of a cork
tree under the microscope.
- His observations led him
to coin the word cell.
- Cell- means little rooms
in Latin
- He compared the small
boxes to the small rooms http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/life/s
ession1/closer1.html

that monks lived in.


Matthias Schleiden
(1804-1881)

German botanist

Discovered that all plants


were made of cells

Contributed to the creation


of the cell theory
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-
9066147/Mathias-Jacob-Schleiden
Theodor Schwann
(1810-1882)

German zoologist

Concluded that all


animals are made of
cells.

Contributed to the creation


of the cell theory
http://www.nndb.com/people/357/000096069/
Rudolph Virchow
(1821-1902)
German pathologist

He is known as the
Father of Pathology.

Discovered that all living


cells come only from other
living cells.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rudolf_Virchow.jpg
The Cell Theory
Major Contributors:

Matthias Schleiden
Theodor Schwann
Rudolph Virchow
The Cell Theory
1. All living things are made of
cells.
2. Cells are the basic units of
structure and function in living
things.
3. Living cells come only from other
living cells.

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