• Thumbnail for Theodor Schwann
    Theodor Schwann (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʃvan]; 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist. His most significant...
    43 KB (4,433 words) - 13:12, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Schwann cell
    Schwann cells or neurolemmocytes (named after German physiologist Theodor Schwann) are the principal glia of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). Glial...
    19 KB (2,448 words) - 13:51, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cell theory
    seen these. To further support his theory, Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann both also studied cells of both animal and plants. What they discovered...
    26 KB (3,355 words) - 13:03, 26 April 2024
  • Schwann may refer to: The Schwann cell Henry Schwann, English cricketer Theodor Schwann, a German physiologist, histologist and cytologist Schwann Records...
    439 bytes (79 words) - 10:38, 17 April 2020
  • structure and growth of animals and plants is a famous treatise by Theodor Schwann published in 1839 which officially formulated the basis of the cell...
    6 KB (663 words) - 18:06, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nucleolus
    nucleolus was identified by bright-field microscopy during the 1830s. Theodor Schwann in his 1939 treatise describes that Schleiden had identified small...
    19 KB (2,098 words) - 14:16, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matthias Jakob Schleiden
    1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work...
    11 KB (991 words) - 20:19, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cell (biology)
    monastery. Cell theory, developed in 1839 by Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that...
    62 KB (6,360 words) - 07:29, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pepsin
    Pepsin was one of the first enzymes to be discovered, by Theodor Schwann in 1836. Schwann coined its name from the Greek word πέψις pepsis, meaning "digestion"...
    30 KB (3,448 words) - 19:50, 8 March 2024
  • materials. 1836 – Theodor Schwann discovered pepsin in extracts from the stomach lining; first isolation of an animal enzyme. 1837 – Theodor Schwann showed that...
    22 KB (2,810 words) - 18:46, 22 April 2024