Microscope: History

Question 1

Spectacle makers who combined lenses, which was the concept used to invent the compound microscope

Answer 1

Hans & Zacharias Jansen

Question 2

Invented the lenses & telescope

Answer 2

Galileo

Question 3

Coined the term “cell” after observing dead plant cells from cork which reminded him of the small rooms in monasteries

Answer 3

Robert Hooke

Question 4

First to observe living cells and called it “animalcules”

Was able to observe bacteria, sperm cells, and the blood streams through the microscope he invented

Answer 4

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 5

Developed the electron microscope

Answer 5

Max Knoll

Question 6

“living things come from non-living matter”

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

Botanist who believed in abiogenesis and concluded that all plants were made of cells

Answer 7

Mathias Schleiden

Question 8

Zoologist that believed in biogenesis and concluded that all animals were made up of cells

Answer 8

Theodor Schwann

Question 9

Said that cells come from pre-existing cells (but apparently plagiarised it from Robert Remak)

Answer 9

Rudolf Virchow