Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to see a cell under a microscope. Robert Hooke was the scientist that named the cell after cellula or small rooms that monks inhabited.
The cell was first discovered and named by Robert Hooke in 1665. He remarked that it looked strangely similar to cellula or small rooms which monks inhabited, thus deriving the name. However what Hooke actually saw was the dead cell walls of plant cells (cork) as it appeared under the microscope.
