Category
page 1Microscopists

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)

Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)

Ernst Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)

Gerd Binnig
German physicist

Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)

Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)

Stefan Hell
director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany

William E. Moerner
Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist

Eric Betzig
American physicist

Richard Henderson
Nobel prize winning British biochemist (born 1945)

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist (1795–1876)
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch entomologist and beekeeper

Giovanni Battista Amici
Italian astronomer, microscopist, and botanist (1786-1863)

Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
Snježana Kordić
Croatian linguist
Mary Ward
Anglo-Irish scientist and writer (1827-1869)
Henry Clifton Sorby
British scientist, founder of microscopical petrology and metallography (1826–1908)
Humberto Fernández Morán
Venezuelan scientist (1924-1999)
Sumio Iijima
Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)
Henry Baker
English naturalist (1698–1774)
Peter Hirsch
British metallurgist
Knut Urban
German physicist
Max Knoll
German engineer (1897-1969)
John Turton Randall
British physicist (1905–1984)
Xiaowei Zhuang
Chinese American biophysicist
Pieter Harting
Dutch biologist (1812-1885)
Vladimir Ignatowski
Russian mathematician (1875–1942)

Henry Siedentopf
German physicist (1872-1940)
Pratibha Gai
British microscopist
August Köhler
German scientist (1866–1948)
Arthur Hill Hassall
British physician (1817-1894)
Archibald Howie
British physicist
Helmut Ruska
German biologist (1908-1973)
F. J. Duarte
Chilean-American physicist
Walter McCrone
American chemist (1916–2002)
Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck
Belgian botanist (1838-1909)
Alfred Kahl
German biologist (1877–1946)
Vernon Ellis Cosslett
British physicist (1908-1990)
Frank Crisp
English lawyer and microscopist (1843-1919)

Marie U. Nylen
Danish-American biologist, dentist, microscopist, and badminton player

Peter Schattschneider
Austrian physicist and author
John C. H. Spence
Australian physicist (1946–2021)
Hermann Ambronn
German botanist and physicist (1856-1927)
John Thomas Quekett
English microscopist and histologist
Mary Ann Booth
American microscopist, photographer (1843-1922)
Benjamin Martin
English lexicographer and scientific instrument maker
Wynne Edwin Baxter
British lawyer, solicitor, coroner, botanist and antiquarian (1844-1920)
Michael J. Whelan
Material scientist, microscopist
Johannes Groenland
German botanist (1824–1891)