Question

Who invented the microscope and was the first person to describe cells?

Who was the first scientist to refer to cells in cork tissues?

Answer 1

1. Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope, while the first to describe cells was Robert Hooke

2. Robert Hooke was the first scientist to do so

Answer 2

The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665 using a microscope.

The first cell theory is credited to the work of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in the 1830s.

Hooke had discovered plant cells -- more precisely, what Hooke saw were the cell walls in cork tissue. In fact, it was Hooke who coined the term "cells": the boxlike cells of cork reminded him of the cells of a monastery.