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Cell History People
Various scientists who contributed to disproving abiogenesis and developing the cell theory. Grade 11 Biology.
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Biology
11th Grade
12/12/2012

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Francesco Redi
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first challenged abiogenesis, created an experiment with meat in jars, stated that "life arises from other life"
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Robert Hooke
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first viewed cells in cork and gave them their name, 1665
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
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first described living cells
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Robert Brown
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first discovered the nucleus
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Matthias Schleiden
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"all plants are made of cells"
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Theodor Schwann
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"all animals are made of cells"
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Rudolf Virchov
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"all cells come from pre-existing cells"
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John Needham
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boiled meat broth, trying to disprove abiogenesis
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
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repeated Needham's work, but removed air from the flask
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Louis Pasteur
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repeated Spallanzani's work but used a swan neck flask
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Thomas Huxley
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gave a famous speech on "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis"
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