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Write the history of discovery of the cells.

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  • Robert Hooke was the first to discover cell (1665).
  • Leeuwenhoek was the first to discover free living cells in pond water (1674).
  • Robert Brown discovered the nucleus (1831).
  • Purkinje coined the term ‘protoplasm (1839).
  • Schleiden (1838) and Schwann (1839) proposed the Cell Theory. Virchow (1855) made further addition to the cell theory.
  • The discovery of electron microscope (1940) made it possible to study the structures of cell organelles.
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