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Frits Zernike
1888Jul, 16

Frits Zernike

Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
Frits Zernike (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfrɪtˈsɛrnikə]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

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