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The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665 using a microscope. The first cell theory is credited to the work of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in the 1830s.
The first living cell was observed by Anton Van leeuwenhoek, who in 1674 described the alga spirogyra. He also saw a bacteria.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered first living cell in algae which founds in pond he saw in own improved microscope.