From 1662 to the end of his life he held the post of "curator of experiments" to the Royal Society.
From 1662 to the end of his life he held the post of "curator of experiments" to the Royal Society. He worked on a wave theory of light, a theory of gravitation, and speculated on the atomic composition of matter. After the Great Fire of 1666, he was named Surveyor of London. He discovered that spiral springs have a period of oscillation independent of amplitude, and helped Robert Boyle invent a gas pump. FTP, identify this scientist who, while looking at cork through a microscope, coined the term cell.
From 1662 to the end of his life he held the post of "curator of experiments" to the Royal Society.
Robert Hooke