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What is the instrument used in studying cells?

The instrument that is used to study cells is a microscope.


Who is famous for looking at cork under a homemade microscope?

Robert Hook observed cells first. He used a simple microscope


Who is the first person to use a microscope to view red blood cells?

some guy named anton


Who named cells and when?

Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" in the mid 1600's. He named them because when he first observed the under a microscope, he was looking at a piece of cork; whose cells are rectangular and reminded him of the cells in a monastery.


Who named cells cells?

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


What did Robert Hooke use to view cells?

Robert Hooke first viewed cells with a microscope. He began calling them cells because they resembled the cells in which monks lived and worked.


Who was the first person to see cells under the microscope and give them a name?

Robert Hooke was the first person to see cells under the microscope in 1665. He also named these as cells because they looked like comb of honey bees. They also reminded him of the small rooms that monks used called cells.


British scientist who first observed cells under a microscope?

Robert Hooke discovered cells under a microscope in 1665. He took a sliver of cork and called the small encasements he saw, cells. They were dead cells, though. The first person to see living cells, was a man named Anton van Leeuwenhoek. He took pond water and observed that under a microscope.


Who discovered cells and when?

I'm sorry i can't remember his name i think it was Thomas Hooke but I'm not sure. He (or whoever it is) looked at cork and saw the small little boxes. He thought it looked like jail cells so he called them cells.


Robert Hooke and the Hooke law?

Hooke discovered cells when he examined cork under his homemade microscope.


What scientist named cells after viewing thin slices of cork through a simple Compound light microscope?

Robert Hook


Who named a cell a cell?

Robert Hooke in 1665 Robert Hooke an English scientist cut a thin slice of cork and looked at it under his microscope. to Hooke the cork seemed to be a bunch of tiny boxes which he called "cells"