Who would have first made this statement while observing cork under a microscope?"The cork looks like little rooms, or cells.”

Robert Hooke examined a thin slice of cork with a microscope in 1665. He described the tiny boxlike spaces as “cells,” because they reminded him of small rooms. Schleiden, Leeuwenhoek, and Virchow made other important contributions to cell biology, but Hooke first used the term after observing cork.

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