Frits Zernike
Frits Zernike
Frits Zernikewas a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 July 1888
laboratory large obtained
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
deeper imitate others quick
How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.
method primitive received somewhat works
With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.