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Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632 [1]) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg.He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly compound microscope, but these claims (made 20 years after his death) may be fabrications put forward by his son.
1931: Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska start to build the first electron microscope. It is a transmission electron microscope (TEM). 1936: Erwin Wilhelm Müller invents the field emission microscope. 1938: James Hillier builds another TEM. 1951: Erwin Wilhelm Müller invents the field ion microscope and is the first to see atoms.
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek [note 2] FRS (/ ˈ ɑː n t ə n i v ɑː n ˈ l eɪ v ən h uː k,-h ʊ k / AHN-tə-nee vahn LAY-vən-hook, -huuk; Dutch: [ˈɑntoːni vɑn ˈleːu.ə(n)ˌɦuk] ⓘ; 24 October 1632 – 26 August 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.
First commercial Electron microscope, constructed by Ernst Ruska in 1939. Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈʁʊskaː] ⓘ; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) [1] was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound microscope that he designed. [7] Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. [ 8 ]
Spencer’s first microscopes were available for purchase in 1838. [2] Previous to Spencer’s invention, European manufacturers held a monopoly on research-quality microscopic equipment. [ 3 ] At least one of Spencer’s microscopes survives and is currently held by the Smithsonian Institution.
He called the new planet the "Georgian star" (Georgium sidus) after King George III, which also brought him favour; the name did not stick. [45] In France, where reference to the British king was to be avoided if possible, the planet was known as "Herschel" until the name "Uranus" was universally adopted. [ 46 ]
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723). The field of microscopy (optical microscopy) dates back to at least the 17th-century.Earlier microscopes, single lens magnifying glasses with limited magnification, date at least as far back as the wide spread use of lenses in eyeglasses in the 13th century [2] but more advanced compound microscopes first appeared in Europe around 1620 [3] [4] The ...