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The first cell observed under a microscope, back in the mid-1660s by physicist Robert Hooke, was a plant cell in a slice of cork. Botanist Robert Brown first named the nucleus after observing opaque ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school ...

With the invention of the microscope at the beginning of the seventeenth ... Hints at the idea that the cell is the basic component of living organisms emerged well before 1838–39, which was ...