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Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who developed the phase-contrast microscope, a technique that allows scientists to see transparent objects like living cells more clearly without staining them. His invention was groundbreaking for biology and medicine, earning him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953.
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- 1888
- Died
- 1966
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- 2
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- Mathematische Hilfsmittel in der Physik
- L'opalescence critique, théorie et expériments
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Frederik "Frits" Zernike ( Dutch: [frɪt ˈsɛrnikə]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
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1888 births1966 deaths20th-century Dutch inventors20th-century Dutch physicistsAcademic staff of the University of GroningenDutch Nobel laureatesForeign members of the Royal SocietyMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesMicroscopistsNobel laureates in PhysicsScientists from AmsterdamUniversity of Amsterdam alumni