Rudolph Virchow was a German physician, pathologist and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of modern pathology and played an instrumental role in establishing the link between diseases and changes within cells.
His work was instrumental in understanding how diseases develop and progress. In addition to this, he was also one of the fathers of cell theory. Virchow’s cell theory states that all cells come from other cells. This theory helped to explain how diseases could spread from one person to another.
Virchow also suggested that there was a relationship between the structure and function of cells. He believed that cells were the basic unit of life and that they could change in response to their environment.
His work laid the foundation for modern pathology and helped to establish what we now know as today’s cell theory.
