2007-05-23 12:59:28 · 6 answers · asked by Katie G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Well, if you broaden this to anything that is or was living, the answer is Robert Hooke in England, who first observed them in a thin slice of cork. Cork is made from the bark of an oak tree so technically, it's not alive. Hooke observed that they looked like the small rooms in which monks lived in a monastery and named them cells.
If you limit this to living things, a good choice is Antony van Leeuwenhoekin (often shortened to Anton van Leeuwenhoek) in Holland, who amazingly observed microscopic organisms in drops of various liquids. It's amazing because his microscope was so simple that it made this sort of viewing extremely difficult.
2007-05-23 13:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Gerald G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Robert Hooke in 1665. He was the first to see a plant cell under a microscope.
2007-05-23 13:16:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Robert Hooke
2007-05-23 13:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by мαɢɢιє 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was Robert Hooke.
in 1665, Hooke observed tiny roomlike structures (cells) while looking at a thin slice of cork through a compound microscope.
2007-05-23 13:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Van Leeuwenhoek
http://www.theguardians.com/Microbiology/gm_mbi02.htm
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2007-05-23 13:08:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was Robert Hooke when he saw plant cells from a cork under his microscope.
2007-05-23 13:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋