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Aug 25, 2009 · Cell biology owes some of its greatest discoveries to the electron microscope, and few were more passionate about its power to “wrest from nature her closely guarded secrets” than Don Wayne Fawcett. A pioneer of electron microscopy and one of its greatest practitioners for studying the organization of cells and tissues, Fawcett died at his ...
- Elizabeth Marincola
- 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000183
- 2009
- PLoS Biol. 2009 Aug; 7(8): e1000183.
Don Fawcett’s The Cell A classic volume of authoritative information considering the many facets of cell structure as revealed by the electron microscope. Index
Fawcett, elected as the first president of the newly formed American Society for Cell Biology in 1961, described the early days of electron microscopy as ‘‘filled with the same excitement and anticipation of discovery that attends the opening up of a new continent for geographic exploration.
- Elizabeth Marincola
- 2009
Cell Theory. By the early 1800s, scientists had observed cells of many different organisms. These observations led two German scientists named Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden to propose cells as the basic building blocks of all living things.
- Christine Miller
- 2020
Dec 16, 2009 · His discoveries included a comprehensive comparative anatomical analysis of sperm cell ultrastructure, elucidation of gametogenesis in the male, the junctional specializations of Sertoli cells in the seminiferous epithelium as the structural basis of the blood-testis barrier and countless other studies of the entire male reproductive tract.
- Susumu Ito, Elio Raviola
- 2010
Cells are divided into two main classes, initially defined by whether they contain a nucleus. Prokaryotic cells (bacteria) lack a nuclear envelope; eukaryotic cells have a nucleus in which the genetic material is separated from the cytoplasm.
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Oct 24, 2024 · Cell theory, fundamental scientific theory of biology according to which cells are held to be the basic units of all living tissues. First proposed by German scientists Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in 1838, the theory that all plants and animals are made up of cells marked a great.
