Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
Background
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Educated at
- University of AmsterdamUniversity of Groningen
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Rumford Medal🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Andreas Smits
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Harold Hopkins📖 Christoffel Jacob Bouwkamp📖 Herman Johannes de Boer📖 Clasine van Winter
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1888
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Birth1966
Died
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