Terms: |Biology| |Matthias Schleiden| |Scientific Discovery|
Published: 7. 5. 2026.
Cell research reached a major turning point in the nineteenth century. In 1838, Matthias Schleiden concluded that all plant tissues are made of cells and that the plant embryo develops from a single cell. A year later, another German scientist reached similar conclusions about animal tissue, disproving older ideas that plants and animals were structurally different. What was his name?
Theodor Schwann