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Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. It was at a Physical and Medical Congress in Wageningen in 1933, that Zernike first described his phase contrast technique in microscopy. In 1912, he was awarded a prize for his work on opalescence in gases.
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Frits Zernike was born in 1888. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1888 | 2026 |
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| Population | 57.6M | 341 million |
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