Frits Zernike
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1953for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope
- Citizenship
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Kingdom of the Netherlands - Languages
- English, Dutch, German
- date of birth
- 7/16/1888
- place of birth
- Amsterdam
- date of death
- 3/10/1966
- place of death
- Amersfoort
- Lived
- 77 years
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- member of
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- Royal Society of London
- start time: 4/26/1956
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- employer
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- University of Groningen
- end time: 1920
- start time: 1915
- University of Groningen
- end time: 1920
- start time: 1920
- University of Groningen
- doctoral student
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- Harold Hopkins
- Bernard Nijboer
- Christoffel Jacob Bouwkamp
- Herman Johannes de Boer
- Hendrik Groendijk
- Clasine van Winter
- educated at
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- University of Amsterdam
- University of Groningen
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- mathematician
- inventor
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- notable work
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- phase contrast microscopy