Robert Hooke first looked at cork cells. Hooke, who lived during the 1600's invented the compound microscope and coined the term 'cell'.
Robert Hooke
When Robert Hooke examined a thin cutting of a cork he saw empty spaces enclosed by walls. He called these empty spaces cells.
Robert Hooke was the person who invented the microscope and first observed the cells in a cork.
Robert Hooke first viewed cells with a microscope. He began calling them cells because they resembled the cells in which monks lived and worked.
First observed cells were plant cells. Robert Hook observed cork cells.
Robert Hooke looked at cork cells through his crude microscope. In fact he was the one who coined the term cell, as he said the cork cells reminded him of the cells where monks lived.Read more: Who_was_the_first_to_look_at_plant_cells_with_a_microscopeRobert Hooke. The cells were cork cells.
Robert Hooke did not discover blood cells. He was the first person to see cells. He saw cells of the oak plant in cork. He viewed a tiny slice of cork under his microscope and saw small compartments which he called cells.
Robert Hooke noticed, while using a microscope, that he could see "cells" in cork. These were like the little rooms that monks slept in and were called cells.
aristole was the first person to view the cell [he was greek]
The cell walls of the cork were so apparent that it reminded him of the cells in which monks lived, hence the name.
Yes. Robert Hooke saw cells in cork when he observed it under the microscope. What he actually observed was the cell walls of dead cork cells. He called them cells because they reminded him of the rooms (cells) of monks in a monastery.
Robert Hook. He didn't actually see the cells as we know of it today, but identified the magnification of cork as "cell", because it looked like prison blocks.
cell walls
he was looking at a piece of cork
Robert Hooke fave this name to the cells he saw in a piece of cork becuse the reminded him of the cells that monks live in. They, like many plant cells, were square. If he had seen an animal cell the name may have not been " cell. "
Robert Hooke first observed cells in cork.
When Robert Hooke examined a thin cutting of a cork he saw empty spaces enclosed by walls. He called these empty spaces cells.
He was the first person to record seeing cells in cork when viewed under the microscope. He first used the term 'cell' to describe what he saw.