Who was the first scientist to discover cells with the use of a homemade microscope?
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MARK BRAINLIEST..
Theodor Schwann was an anatomist and physiologist who is best known for developing the cell doctrine that all living things are composed of cells. He established that the cell is the basic unit of all living things. He believed that cells are governed by scientific processes and rejected vitalism which invoked the presence of some special energy or vital spark that only living things possessed.
His classification of different cells is the foundation of modern histology.
Schwann discovered the enzyme pepsin and discovered glial cells in nerves – these are now known as Schwann cells. He also identified the role that microorganisms play in alcohol fermentation.
Schwann identified the role of microorganisms in putrefaction and alcohol fermentation. He carried out a variety of fermentation experiments and by 1836 had gathered enough evidence to convince himself that the conversion of sugar to alcohol during fermentation was a biological process that required the action of a living substance (yeast) rather than a chemical process of sugar oxidation. Unfortunately, Schwann’s explanation of fermentation was ridiculed by other scientists. Acceptance only came with Louis Pasteur’s work over a decade later. Pasteur later wrote in a letter to Schwann.