In a previous post, I described the 1873 discovery by Camillo Golgi of a method to visualize neurons and his decades-long debate with co-Nobelist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, which led to our current ...
Hooke, Schleiden, Schwann, and the many others who painted the early portraits of cells would be astounded if they could see the state of cell biology today. Researchers now order cells from catalogs, ...
June 23, 1881. Matthias Jakob Schleiden died.—At first an advocate at Hamburg, Schleiden afterwards held the chairs of botany at Jena and Dorpat. He did much to establish the cell theory, while among ...