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Apr 8, 2024 · 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. Schwann studied at the Jesuits’ College at Cologne ...
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. Other contributions include the discovery of Schwann cells in the peripheral ...
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The cell theory defined the cell as the base unit of all living organisms, and had great influence on the study of both plants and animals. The cell theory was radical for the time and irrevocably discredited Vitalism, the mainstream belief that life was attributed to a vital force. Among other things, Schwann is known for recognising that the ...
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Jan 1, 2017 · Inspired by microscopic investigations on cartilage in fish embryos by his teacher Johannes Müller (1836), Schwann extended Meyen’s (1830), Brown’s (1831), and Schleiden’s (1838) observations on plant cells to animals (1839). This cell theory includes that both plant and animal organisms consist of cells and cell products.
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May 18, 2018 · Schwann, Theodor (1810–82) A German physiologist who, in collaboration with M. J. Schleiden, proposed the cell theory (and coined the term), according to which all plant and animal tissues are composed of cells, and within an individual organism all the cells are identical (see also VIRCHOW, RUDOLF). This was based on a botanical discovery by ...
Theodor Schwann is best remembered for the eponymous Schwann cell that he studied and described in his microscopic studies of nervous tissue. However, his most important contribution to science would be the fact that he was one of the founders of the ' Cell doctrine ' which proposed that all living beings were made of fundamental units called cells - a foundational principle on which rests ...