History of the Cell
1. In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke looked at a thin slice of cork through a microscope and saw tiny hollow room-like structures and he called these structures cells. Although Hook only saw the outer cell walls because cork cells are not alive.
2. Around 1680 Dutch fabric merchant and amateur scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek. He took samples of blood, rainwater, and stuff scraped off of teeth and observed living cells. Some he called animalcules and today some of these animalcules are called bacteria.
3. A German Botanist named Mattias Schleiden in 1838 looked at plants under a microscope and discovered they had living cells.
4. In 1839 a German Zoologist named Theodore Schwann discovered animal parts are made of cells.
5. In 1855 a German physician named Rudolph Virchow stated all living cells come only from other living cells.
6. In 1774 an unknown scientist discovered fluid floating around in a cell and 50 years later Robert Brown discovered gunmosis moving around the cell randomly, then in 1833 he discovered the nucleus.
7. In 1945 Albert Claude used an Electron Microscope and discovered a new organelle he called the Endoplasmic Reticulum.
8. After the discovery of the mitochondria by a German scientist, another scientist named Camillo Golgi discovered another organelle. This was a huge discovery in science so they named it a Golgi body.
9. In the 1970's scientist Keith Porter used observations of a thin wiry material throughout the cell he got from an electron microscope to determine the cytoskeleton.
10.The first observations of intracellular structures that probably represent mitochondria were published in the 1840s. Richard Altmann, in 1894, established them as cell organelles and called them "bioblasts". The term "mitochondria" itself was coined by Carl Benda in 1898. Friedrich Meves, in 1904, made the first recorded observation of mitochondria in plants.
11. Together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1974, for the discovery of the ribosomes. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for determining the detailed structure and mechanism of the ribosome.
12. In 1840 Albrecht von Roelliker realized that sperm cells and egg cells are also cells.
13. In 1838, Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden proposed cell theory.
14. The first continuous cell line to be so cultured was in 1951 by George Otto Gey and coworkers, derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, who died from her cancer in 1951.
15. In 1938,Behrens used differential centrifugation to separate nuclei from cytoplasm.
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2. Around 1680 Dutch fabric merchant and amateur scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek. He took samples of blood, rainwater, and stuff scraped off of teeth and observed living cells. Some he called animalcules and today some of these animalcules are called bacteria.
3. A German Botanist named Mattias Schleiden in 1838 looked at plants under a microscope and discovered they had living cells.
4. In 1839 a German Zoologist named Theodore Schwann discovered animal parts are made of cells.
5. In 1855 a German physician named Rudolph Virchow stated all living cells come only from other living cells.
6. In 1774 an unknown scientist discovered fluid floating around in a cell and 50 years later Robert Brown discovered gunmosis moving around the cell randomly, then in 1833 he discovered the nucleus.
7. In 1945 Albert Claude used an Electron Microscope and discovered a new organelle he called the Endoplasmic Reticulum.
8. After the discovery of the mitochondria by a German scientist, another scientist named Camillo Golgi discovered another organelle. This was a huge discovery in science so they named it a Golgi body.
9. In the 1970's scientist Keith Porter used observations of a thin wiry material throughout the cell he got from an electron microscope to determine the cytoskeleton.
10.The first observations of intracellular structures that probably represent mitochondria were published in the 1840s. Richard Altmann, in 1894, established them as cell organelles and called them "bioblasts". The term "mitochondria" itself was coined by Carl Benda in 1898. Friedrich Meves, in 1904, made the first recorded observation of mitochondria in plants.
11. Together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 1974, for the discovery of the ribosomes. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for determining the detailed structure and mechanism of the ribosome.
12. In 1840 Albrecht von Roelliker realized that sperm cells and egg cells are also cells.
13. In 1838, Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden proposed cell theory.
14. The first continuous cell line to be so cultured was in 1951 by George Otto Gey and coworkers, derived from cervical cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks, who died from her cancer in 1951.
15. In 1938,Behrens used differential centrifugation to separate nuclei from cytoplasm.
See Refrences on Work Cited Page 2 under history