 He did not initially accept the evidence for cell division, believing that it occurs only in certain types of cells.When it dawned on him that Remak might be right, in 1855, he published Remak's work as his own, causing a falling-out between the two.Virchow was particularly influenced in cellular theory by the work of John Goodsir of Edinburgh, whom he described, as "one of the earliest and most acute observers of cell-life both physiological and pathological."