I'm Zacharias Janssen and I invented the first primitive microscope for cell discovery in the future. I was able to develop this invention due to my knowledge of the family lineage of lens manufacturers.
I'm Robert Hooke and while looking at a cork, I observed box-shaped structures, which I called cells as they reminded me of the cells, or rooms, in monasteries. My discovery led to the development of the classical cell theory.
I'm Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and I was the first person to observe bacteria and protozoa, which I called animalcules
We're Barthelemy Dumortier and Robert Remak, and we observed and confirmed reproduction by cell division of pre-existing cells in plants and animal cells.
We're Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann. We studied tissues and proposed the unified cell theory which stated that: all living things are composed of one or more cells and the cell is the basic unit of life.
I'm Rudolf Virchow and my contribution in the cell theory is that I stated that just as animals are unable to arise without previously existing animals, cells are unable to arise without previously existing cells.