evolution of the microscope By jaime humberto gm 1590 In the Netherlands first microscope was invented in by Zacharias Janssen 1609 Galileo Galilei develops a compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens. 1625 Giovanni Faber coins the name ‘microscope’ for Galileo Galilei’s compound microscope. 1665 Robert Hooke published Micrographia, in which he adds the term ‘cells’ when describing tissue. 1676 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek builds a simple microscope with one lens to examine blood, yeast and insects. First to describe cells and bacteria. 1850 John Leonard Riddell, invents the first practical binocular microscope. 1931 Ernst Ruska starts to build the first electron microscope. 1951 Erwin Wilhelm Müller invents the field ion microscope and is the first to see atoms. 1981 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer develop the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). 1988 Kingo Itaya invents the Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope 1991 Kelvin probe force microscope invented.
