This is, in a sense, a prequel describing how the German botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden ... In October 1838, Schleiden had dinner with his friend Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), a young physician ...

Theodor Schwann (7 December 1810 – 11 January ... Once, when Schwann was dining with Matthias Jakob Schleiden (who in 1837 had viewed and stated that new plant cells formed from the nuclei ...

Hooke, Schleiden, Schwann, and the many others who painted the early portraits of cells would be astounded if they could see the state of cell biology today. Researchers now order cells from catalogs, ...