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Hooke looked at the cell in a piece of cork and came up with the name ' cell ' because the square plant cell he was looking at reminded him of monk's living/praying quarters.

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Q: What was the first cell Robert Hooke looked at?
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Who was the founder of cell?

The person who first looked at cells was Robert Hooke. He named them after the monks' cells which the cell looked like.


Who was the first person to name cell?

Robert Hooke did.


Who saw the first cell?

Robert Hooke found the first cell in a sliced open cork.Under a microscope.


Who Saw cork cells first?

Robert Hooke first looked at cork cells. Hooke, who lived during the 1600's invented the compound microscope and coined the term 'cell'.


Who was the first to observe live cells under a microscope?

robert hooke he looked at a cork and said that it looked like a cell


Who named cells cells?

Robert Hooke named the cell after he looked at a small slice of cork in a microscope


Who was the first man to discover the cell?

The first mane to discover a cell was Robert Hooke. He was looking at cork cells under the microscope and saw a cell for the first time.


Who was the first person to observe cell?

Robert Hooke first observed cells in cork.


What scientist was the first to look at cell under a microscope?

Robert hooke


The first cells seen by Robert Hooke using a microscope was a?

Hooke looked at a slice of cork and saw that it look like a cell where monks and nuns used to sleep.


Who discovered the first living cell?

Robert Hooke looked at cork (which is from wood) and looked at nonliving cels. Anton van Leeuwenhoek looked at pond water with living organisms


Robert hooke cell theory?

He first observed cork cells and said they looked like rooms.