who discovered microscopic cells

Microscopic cells were first discovered and named by the English scientist Robert Hooke in 1665, when he observed thin slices of cork under a microscope and saw tiny boxlike compartments he called “cells.”

Quick Scoop

• In 1665, Robert Hooke used a compound microscope he designed to study very thin slices of cork.

• He noticed a pattern of many tiny compartments that reminded him of small rooms in a monastery, so he called them “cells,” introducing the term into science.

• A few years later, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek went further and observed living single‑celled organisms (“animalcules”), but the credit for discovering and naming microscopic cells goes to Hooke.

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