Fritz Zernike receives his Nobel Prize from Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953.

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Fritz Zernike and Sweden's Queen Louise at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1953.

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From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1953.

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Frits Zernike with his invention, the phase contrast microscope, in 1953.

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Frits Zernike with his son Frits Zernike Jr. at the Natuurkundig Laboratory, Groningen.

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