Cell Biology - Basic Facts

CYTOLOGY FACTS

• Robert Hooke discovered and coined term CELL.
• Robert Brown (1831)  discovered Nucleus.
• Fontana (1781) discovered Nucleolus. 
• Bowman (1840) coined term Nucleolus.
• Dumortier (1832) first of all studied Mitosis.
• Purkinje (1839) & Von Mohl (1840) named protoplasm.
• Schleiden & Schwann (18H39) proposed Cell Theory.
• Rudolf Virchow (1855) generalised  "Omnis Cellilae cellula".
• Kolliker (1862)  used term Cytoplasm.
• E. Haeckel (1866) coined term Plastid.
• Schimper (1883) studied chloroplast.
• Kolliker (1880) observed Mitochondria.
• Benda (1897) Named Mitochondria.
• George (1867) saw Golgi Apparatus.
• Camillo Golgi ( 1898) studied Golgi Body.
• Hofmeister (1848) observed Chromosomes.
• Waldeyer (1888) Named Chromosomes.
• Strasburger (1873) told that new nuclei are formed from old nucleus.
• Flemming ( 1880) used term mitosis.
• Fol ( 1893) discovered Spindle and Asters.
• Strasburger(1888) worked out detail of Meiosis.
• Farmer and Moore (1905) named Meiosis.

• His (1870) formed Microtome.
• Svedberg ( 1926) discovered Ultra Centrifuge.
• Knoll and Ruska (1932) discovered Electron Microscope.
• Zernicke (1935-40) developed Phase Contrast Microscope.
• Talbot ( 1834) discovered Polarising Microscope.
• Coons(1945) discovered Fluorescent Microscope.

• Robertson ( 1959) discovered cell membrane.
• Porter & Thompson (1945) discovered E.R.
• Robinson & Brown (1953) discovered Ribosomes.
• de Duve (1953) discovered Lysosomes.
• Robertis & Franchi ( 1953) discovered Microtubules.