Word: schwann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cell Theory (that cells are the basic units of living matter) is commonly supposed to have been formulated first by the German Theodor Schwann in 1839. Actually it had been advanced nearly 200 years earlier, by British Botanist Robert Hooke, and many others preceded Schwann...