NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Hooke is the the scientist who coined the term cell for the compartments observed in a cork.

Detailed explanation-2: -Robert Hooke coined the term “Cell” which means small compartment, in Latin. He named it so, because the boxlike cells of a cork slice which he observed under a microscope, reminded him of the rooms, or cells of monks in a monastery and so he said that the cork was made up of cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the year 1665, Robert Hooke observed a specimen of cork cells which were dead under a microscope. He called them cells, as they resembled tiny rooms in monasteries called cells.