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Theodor Schwann (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʃvan]; [1] [2] 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist. [3] His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals.
Theodor Schwann (born December 7, 1810, Neuss, Prussia [Germany]—died January 11, 1882, Cologne, Germany) was a German physiologist who founded modern histology by defining the cell as the basic unit of animal structure. He was a cofounder (with Matthias Jakob Schleiden) of the cell theory.
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Theodor Schwann was an anatomist and physiologist who is best known for developing the cell doctrine that all living things are composed of cells. He established that the cell is the basic unit of all living things.
May 18, 2018 · The German biologist Theodor Schwann (1810-1882) is considered a founder of the cell theory. He also discovered pepsin, the first digestive enzyme prepared from animal tissue, and experimented to disprove spontaneous generation.
Jun 2, 2021 · Theodor Schwann (Fig. 1), the eminent founder of modern histology and the discoverer of the lemmocyte, was born on December 7, 1810 in Neuss, Germany, the fourth son of Elisabeth (née Rottels) and Leonard Schwann, the owner of a local bookstore. Theodor grew up in a large family—he had twelve siblings.
- Michał K. Owecki
- 10.1007/s00415-021-10630-6
- 2021
- J Neurol. 2021; 268(12): 4921-4922.
Theodor Schwann is best remembered for the eponymous Schwann cell that he studied and described in his microscopic studies of nervous tissue.
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Aug 2, 2024 · Cell theory, fundamental scientific theory of biology according to which cells are held to be the basic units of all living tissues. First proposed by German scientists Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in 1838, the theory that all plants and animals are made up of cells marked a great.