Matthias Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
1804–1881
Seeing that plants are made of cells
Matthias Schleiden was born in Hamburg.
He argued that plants are made of cells.
Theodor Schwann was reaching the same kind of idea about animals.
Places: Hamburg, Jena
What they made
The cell idea for plants. Theodor Schwann studied cells in animals at the same time.