Schwann, an animal physiologist, and Schleiden, a botanist, were students of Johannes ... Robert Hooke had coined the word “cell”—short for cellula, or “small compartment” in Latin—in the mid-17th ...

Virchow's Cellularpathologie was the most important pathogenic concept until, in this century, the theory of molecular pathology was developed. After Schleiden and Swann's formulation of cell ...