At dinner with Theodor Schwann, the two expanded the theory to animal life as well. Cell theory set the stage for Golgi and Cajal's later debate on the structure of the nervous system.

Theodor Schwann (7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German zoologist. His many contributions to biology include the development of cell theory, the discovery of Schwann cells in the ...

WELLCOME LIBRARY, LONDON I n 1837, Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann were dining together in Berlin when Schleiden mentioned a recent discovery by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown: the nucleus.

THE death is announced of the distinguished physiologist whose name will be for ever associated with the history of the ‘cell-theory.’ He was born at Neuss near Dusseldorf in 1810, and was ...