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Robert Hooke

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Discovered cells using a microscope

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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First to see blood, bacteria and sperm cells
“Father of the microscope”
Perverted the microscope

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Spontaneous generation

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The idea that living things could come from non living objects

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Louis Pasteur

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Proved spontaneous generation wrong by the boiling chicken broth experiment

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Francisco Redi

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Proved spontaneous generation wrong saying maggots do not come from rotting meat

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Matthias Schleiden

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Botanist
Said all plants are made of cells

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Theodor Schwann

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Zoologist
Said all animals are made of cells

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Rudolf Virchow

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Doctor
Said all cells come from other cells

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