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Robert Hooke published "Microgphia". It had illustrations of objects drawn with the help of his microscope. First to use the tern "Cell" when describing a cork.
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic miscroscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and more with his microscope that could magnify up too 300X.
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Achromatic lenses can provide resolution of 1 micron.
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Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden formally proposed the "Cell Theory".
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Donne published the first micrographs in France.
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Ernst Abbe published his work on the theory of microscope. His formula to caculate resolution is based on his wave light theory.
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Ernst Leitz introduced a revolving turret for 5 objectives.
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Oil immersion lenses were introduced that allowed for homogeneous optical path.
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Walher Flemming discovered mitosis.
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August Kohler had worked out light source and condenser position to obtain the best image projection.
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Ernst Abbe designed aprochromatic abjective that brings red, yellow, and blue into one focus. Requires 10 or more elements.
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The first commercial
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Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska contrust the first electron microscope.
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First electron micrograpf of biological sample.
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The Electron microscopeis now available to the public.
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Built by Porter and Blum
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Made commercially available.
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Scanning laser confocal microscope is commercialy available.
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