the cell theory

Cllas17
Date june02/2010
Topic the cell theory
1) Robert Hooke: (Freshwater, July 18, 1635 - London, March 3, 1703) English scientist. It was, , ne of the most important experimental scientists in the history of science, tireless polemicist with a creative genius of the first order. His interests spanned such disparate fields as biology, medicine, timing, planetary physics, mechanics of deformable solids, microscopy, sailing and architecture.
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1) Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek: (in Dutch also Anthony, Antoni, or Theunis, in English, Antony or Anton) (born on October 24, 1632 and died on August 26, 1723 – buried on August 30) was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands.
2) He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist. He is best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology.
1Matthias Jakob Schleiden :(April 5, 1804 - June 23, 1881) was a German botanist who, along with fellow physiologist Theodor Schwann, formulated the cell theory.
2) Controversial man of character, scoffed at the botanists of his time, which was limited to name and describe plants. Schleiden studied them under a microscope and conceived the idea that they were composed of identifiable units or cells.
1) Theodor Schwann: (Neuss am Rhein, Germany today, December 7, 1810 - Cologne, ibid., January 11, 1882). Physiologist and anatomist alemán. Profesor of anatomy at the Catholic University of Louvain (1838-1848) and then at the University of Liège (1848-1879).
2) Studied the spontaneous generation of gastric digestion (pepsin found in gastric juice) fermentation and nerve fibers. Described in these fibers the sheath of Schwann.