Scanning Force Microscopy in Biology

摘要: Microscopes have played a fundamental role in the development of biology as an experimental science. It was Robert Hooke who, when using compound microscope 1655, noticed that thin slices cork were made up identical and small self‐contained units, which he called “cells.” The generalization this observation its acceptance, though, had to wait until late 1830s, German microscopists Matthias Schleiden Thcodor Schwann—working independently—introduced “cell theory” complex organisms. By second half 19th century Magnus Retzius, Santiago Ramon y Cajal Camillo Golgi busy completing microscopic anatomical description cell.