Hooke, Robert
Robert Hooke discovered a structure in a cork of a wine bottle with his own improvised microscope. His microscope had originally been constructed by Christopher White.Robert is a polymath, a man of many sciences, and due to his achievements, he has been dubbed as England's Leonardo
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Beginning of Cell Theory
What he had seen was something quite new to the human eye at that time. He called it a "cell" as, for him, it resembled cells in a monastery.With his interest piqued, he continued looking at countless organisms and drew the beauty of the smaller world into his book Micrographia
Inside the book were drawings of a variety of insects such as a flea, louse, gnat, dronefly, and blue fly. Other than that, it also contained notes about planetary bodies, and wave theory of light.
The Father
Antonnie van Leuwenhook was a draper, in common words, he sells clothes. However, his current tool to analyze the quality of fabrics was unsatisfactory for him. As a retaliation, he made his own glass.Unbeknowst to him, he just made a powerful microscope, able to magnify up to 270 times into the subject. He started drawing insects in that detail and as he was curious, he sent it to the Royal Society.
He then tried looking at pond water, and surpsisingly, there were seemingly living organisms in it that cannot be seen by the naked eye. This disproved the spontaneous generation fallacy, and moved the science of microbiology to greater heights.
Leuwenhook, Antonie
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek. A largely self-taught scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.With his achievement, he became known as the Father of Microbiology.
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Schleiden, Matthias
Matthias Schleiden, a German botanist who had a great deal of interest for his hobby. A co-founder of the modern cell theory.He proposed that all plants are composed of cells and that cells are the building blocks of all plants.
He studied law but botany seemed to pique his interest more and pursued it instead. So as a professor of botany, he wrote his Contributions to Phytogenesis
Contributions to Phytogenesis
Inside his work, it states that all plants must be made of cells or a derivative of cells as from what he have observed from the microscope.At that time, it was an informal belief. He also realized that the nucleus of a cell has a purpose related to how cell division works.
Schleiden strongly believed in the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin as it could explain the diversity of plants. Thus, making him known to be one of the earliest advocate of Darwinism in Germany.
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Schwann, Theodor
A physiologist, co-founder of the cell theory. He extended the statement about plants on the cell theory to animals."All living things are composed of cells and cell products." This lead to the conclusion that cells are the fundamental unit of every living thing.
A Microscopic Investigation
He published a book of a very long title Mikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Uebereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen.During a meeting with Schwann, they talked about cells of plants and animals. The two shared what they have observed and came to a conclusion which led to a more refined cell theory. He then published his long-titled book that could be translated as "microscopic investigation of plants and animals" and this work became a foundation to the modern biology.
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Omnis cellula e cellula
The man said. In literal English, it meant "all cell comes from other cells". With this, Virchow laid the groundwork for cellular pathology.The newfound knowledge meant that diseases arose, not in the tissues or the organs themselves, but rather from their individual cells.
However there is some controversy about his contribution to the cell theory. It is now known that Robert Remak, his former colleague, had published the same idea 3 years before Virchow did. Well this is plagiarism, but due to the standards of the old times coupled with Virchow's strong reputation and that Remak is a Jew in an anti-semetic nation, Virchow got away with it.
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Virchow, Rudolf
Rudolf Virchow is a co-founder of the cell theory. His statement, Omnis cellula e cellula, was published based from his observation that all cells arise from pre-existing cells. This observation is related to a previous belief that news cells are created from a fluid called blastema.Modern Cell Theory
All organisms are made of cellsCells are the most fundamental unit of life
Cells come from pre-existing cells.
This is the modern cell theory which has only been made possible due to the efforts of the scientists throughout the years. Their efforts allowed mankind to go beyond the decades with better technology by having more understanding of the underlying principles which govern our lives.
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