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    Robert Brown discovered Brownian motion, the random movement of microscopic particles in a fluid. Robert Hooke was the first to view cells under a microscope and contributed to early cell theory. Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden helped establish cell theory by demonstrating that plant and animal tissues are composed of cells. Rudolf Virchow further developed cell theory by proposing that all cells come from preexisting cells and that diseases result from changes in specific cell groups.

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    Robert Brown discovered Brownian motion, the random movement of microscopic particles in a fluid. Robert Hooke was the first to view cells under a microscope and contributed to early cell theory. Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden helped establish cell theory by demonstrating that plant and animal tissues are composed of cells. Rudolf Virchow further developed cell theory by proposing that all cells come from preexisting cells and that diseases result from changes in specific cell groups.

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    Robert Brown discovered Brownian motion, the random movement of microscopic particles in a fluid. Robert Hooke was the first to view cells under a microscope and contributed to early cell theory. Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden helped establish cell theory by demonstrating that plant and animal tissues are composed of cells. Rudolf Virchow further developed cell theory by proposing that all cells come from preexisting cells and that diseases result from changes in specific cell groups.

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    Robert Brown

    Although Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858) was responsible for discovering the
    nucleus of a cell, he is perhaps best known for his discovery of the random movement of
    microscopic particles in a surrounding solution, later referred to as "Brownian motion."
    . Robert Hooke
    Contributions to Cell Theory. Robert Hooke's greatest legacy is hiscontribution to cell theory.
    Cell theory, as we know it today, is the result of the work of many different scientists. But here's
    the thing: Hooke was actually the first person to view cells under a microscope.
    Theodor Schwann
    In 1838 Matthias Schleiden had stated that plant tissues were composed of
    cells. Schwann demonstrated the same fact for animal tissues, and in 1839 concluded that all
    tissues are made up of cells: this laid the foundations for the cell theory. Schwann also worked
    on fermentation and discovered the enzyme pepsin
    Matthias Schleiden
    Matthias Jakob Schleiden (5 April 1804 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and cofounder of the cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. Born in
    Hamburg, Schleiden was educated at Heidelberg, then practiced law in Hamburg, but soon
    developed his love for the botany into a full-time pursuit.Schleiden preferred to study plant structure
    under the microscope. While a professor of botany at the University of Jena, he wrote Contributions to
    Phytogenesis (1838), in which he stated that the different parts of the plant organism are composed of
    cells. Thus, Schleiden and Schwann became the first to formulate what was then an informal belief as a
    principle of biology equal in importance to the atomic theory of chemistry. He also recognized the
    importance of the cell nucleus, discovered in 1831 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, and sensed its
    connection with cell division.

    Rudolf Virchow
    Virchow was appointed as the chair of pathological anatomy at the University of Wurzburg in
    1849 and carried out a great deal of research. In 1855, he first published his idea that all cells
    arise from other cells. Rather than being formed by the action of a life force or spontaneously
    crystallizing from other matter, Virchow argued that cells only formed from the division of other
    cells. This idea is one of the key principles of cell theory, along with the idea that the cell is the
    basic unit of organization for living organisms.
    During this period, he also proposed the basic ideas of cellular pathology. Rather than being the
    result of changes in an organism as a whole, Virchow believed that diseases result from
    changes in specific groups of cells. By examining cells for certain changes or alterations,
    doctors can more precisely identify and diagnose a disease.

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