He thought that they looked like cells in which monks lived in.
Robert Hooke described the parts of cork he saw under a microscope as "cells" in 1665. He said this because they looked like jail cells.
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"
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Robert Hooke used the name cells to describe their shape and pattern.
Robert Hooke named the spaces in the cork cell
Cells. Hooke was the first to observe cells, and also bestowed that name.
Robert Hooke was the first to name cells.
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Cells
Robert hooke discovered something new under his microscope by using cork He called what he saw "box like" structures. These were cells.
Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1665 He was the first to discover cells by finding the dead cells of a cork
Robert Hooke is the one to identify and name cells.