In September 2008 at Kauffman Stadium, Bol Bol accompanied his father, Manute Bol, who was being honored for his work with Sudanese refugees. File photo by John Sleezer The Kansas City Star. Portrait of Bol Bol, son of former NBA star Manute Bol. Bol is a 6'-10'' freshman at Bishop Miege High School.
The cell was discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, who named the biological units for their resemblance to cells inhabited by Christian monks in a monastery.
Cells were discovered in 1665 by British scientist Robert Hooke who first observed them in his crude (by today's standards) seventeenth century optical microscope. In fact, Hooke coined the term cell, in a biological context, when he described the microscopic structure of cork like a tiny, bare room or monk's cell.