Frits Zernike
1888-1966
Dutch physicist whose development of the phase-contrast method, which had a profound impact on high-performance optical microscopy, earned him the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics. ...
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Frits Zernike was born on July 16, 1888, in Amsterdam, the son of two mathematicians, Carl Frederick August Zernike and Antje Dieperink Zernike. While still young, Zernike was recognized for his mathe...
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Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike