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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953

"for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"
Frits (Frederik) Zernike
Frits (Frederik) Zernike
the Netherlands
Groningen University
Groningen, the Netherlands
b. 1888
d. 1966
 
 
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