Died 1966-03-10.
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Frits Zernike
Frederik "Frits" Zernike 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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science · Dutch physicist (1888–1966) · physicist · mathematician · inventor · university teacher · chemist · also Frits Zernike, Zernike
Born 16 July 1888 · Died 10 March 1966 · Q188293
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers (1955).
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1953· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1953).
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For his invention of the phase-contrast microscope
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1952· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1952).
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1938· 1 entry
Published a simpler derivation of Van Cittert's 1934 theorem on the coherence of radiation from distant sources, now known as the Van Cittert–Zernike theorem
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1933· 1 entry
That Zernike first described his phase contrast technique in microscopy
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1930· 1 entry
Zernike was conducting research into spectral lines when he discovered that the so-called ghost lines that occur to the left and right of each primary line in spectra created by means of a diffraction grating, have their
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1915· 1 entry
Became lector in theoretical mechanics and mathematical physics at the same university and in 1920 he was promoted to Professor of Mathematical Physics
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1914· 1 entry
Zernike and Leonard Ornstein were jointly responsible for the derivation of the Ornstein–Zernike equation in critical-point theory
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1913· 1 entry
Became assistant to Jacobus Kapteyn in the astronomical laboratory at the University of Groningen
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1912· 1 entry
Zernike was awarded a prize for his doctoral work on opalescence in gases
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1905· 1 entry
Enrolled at the University of Amsterdam, studying chemistry (his major), mathematics, and physics
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-07-16.
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