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The Cell Theory
1665 Robert Hooke- Looked at a sliver of cork and found “pores” or “cells”.
Leeuwenhoek 1683- He helped by doing an experiment where He helped leading to the rejection of spontaneous generation.
Pasture 1822- proved by examining growth of bacteria.
1838- Matthias Schleiden- discoved that all plants are made of cells.
1838- Theodor Schwann- Examined different tissues found cells in tissues.
1855 Virchow- discoved that cells come from other cells.
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