Answer:
1625- Galileo Galilei invented one of the first compound microscope
1665- Robert Hooke coined the term "cell"
1674- Anton van Leeuwenhoek one of the first scientists able to observe bacteria movement in a single drop of pond water. 1830- Joseph Jackson Lister was credited for his prototype of the compound
microscope
1872- Ernst Abbe provided the calculations that allowed for the maximum resolution in microscopes possible
1903- Richard Zsigmondy developed the ultra- microscope
1932- Frits Zernike invented the phase- contrast microscope
19th century- Charles Spencer began producing fine optical microscope.
