The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

Such observations might seem ho-hum today, but they were unprecedented at the time. Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th century, ...

This theory of 'free cell formation' was reminiscent of the old 'spontaneous generation' doctrine (although as an intracellular variant), but was refuted in the 1850s by Robert Remak (1815–1865) ...

Felicity Henderson, a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, demonstrates in “Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy” that he was in fact a pioneer—he coined the term “cell,” for ...