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Ernst Abbe

Ernst Karl Abbe, was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of scientific microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums, and other advanced optical systems.

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business · German physicist, entrepreneur, and social reformer (1840–1905) · physicist · astronomer · university teacher · lens designer · statistician · entrepreneur · social reformer · donor · also Ernst Abbe, Ernst Karl Abbe, Abbe

Born 23 January 1840 · Died 14 January 1905 · Q76359

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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1903).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1882).
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1953· 1 entry

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And Hans Busch used them to work on the development of the electron microscope

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1905· 1 entry

Jan 14, 1905Documented record86% confidence

Died 1905-01-14.

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Newspaper clippings about Ernst Abbe in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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1903· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1903Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1903).

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1896· 1 entry

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Reorganized the Zeiss optical works into a cooperative with profit-sharing

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1890· 1 entry

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And in 1900, introduced the eight-hour workday, in remembrance of the 14-hour workday of his own father

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1889· 2 entries

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Ernst Abbe set up and endowed the Carl Zeiss Foundation for research in science

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1889Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1882).

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1878· 1 entry

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Built the first homogenous immersion system for the microscope

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1877· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1877Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: director (1877–1900).

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1876· 1 entry

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Abbe was offered a partnership by Zeiss and began to share in the considerable profits

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1874· 1 entry

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Helmholtz states this formula was first derived by Joseph Louis Lagrange, who had died 61 years prior

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1872· 1 entry

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Including models with homogenous immersion objective by 1877 and his apochromatic objective microscopes in 1886

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1871· 2 entries

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Designed the first refractometer, which he described in a booklet published in 1874

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1871Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Married Else Snell, daughter of the mathematician and physicist Karl Snell, one of Abbe's teachers, with whom he had two daughters

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1870· 1 entry

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Accepted a contract as an associate professor of experimental physics, mechanics and mathematics in Jena

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1866· 1 entry

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Became a research director at the Zeiss Optical Works, and in 1868 he invented the apochromatic lens, a microscope lens which eliminates both the primary and secondary color distortion

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1861· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1861Documented record84% confidence

Studied at University of Göttingen, Doctor (1859–1861).

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Abbe was awarded his PhD in Göttingen on 23 March 1861.

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1859· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1859Documented record84% confidence

Studied at University of Jena (1857–1859).

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1857· 2 entries

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Thus, in spite of the family's strained financial situation, his father decided to support Abbe's studies at the Universities of Jena (1857–1859) and Göttingen (1859–1861).

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Jan 1, 1857Documented record84% confidence

Studied at Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium (1851–1857).

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1840· 1 entry

Jan 23, 1840Documented record86% confidence

Born 1840-01-23.

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