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The invention of the Mircoscope
In about 1595, Zacharias Janssen invented the mircoscope. -
Hooke noticed cells
Robert Hooke, looked at a silver cork through a microscope lens and noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a simple microscope with only one lens to examine blood, yeast, insects and many other tiny objects. -
Becoming Popular
Technical innovations improved microscopes, leading to microscopy becoming popular among scientists. -
Joseph Jackson Lister
Joseph Jackson Lister reduces spherical aberration or the "chromatic effect" by showing that several weak lenses used together at certain distances gave good magnification without blurring the image. -
The Research Director
Ernst Abbe, then research director of the Zeiss Optical Works, wrote a mathematical formula called the "Abbe Sine Condition". -
Wavelenght of light
Richard Zsigmondy developed the ultramicroscope that could study objects below the wavelength of light. -
Colorless and Transparent
Frits Zernike invented the phase-contrast microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materials. -
Binnig and Rohrer
Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope that gives three-dimensional images of objects down to the atomic level.
