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Microscope history
People using microscopes
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Biology
11th Grade
06/13/2011

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When was the first compound microscope invented?
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The end of the sixteenth century
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Robert Hooke
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First person to use the word 'cell'(1665)
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Antoni van Leeuwwonhoek
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Seeing the first living molecules(1676)
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Robert Brown
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Discovered the nucleus in plant cells(1831)
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Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
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Cells are the basic unit of plant and animal structure(1837/1838)
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Rudolf Virchow
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Proposed that all cells arose from cell division(1859)
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Walther Flemming
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Pioneered the use of dyes to stain cells, the first to observe mitosis(1880)
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When was the first electron microscope invented and who by?
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In 1933 by Virchov
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