Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Frits Zernike

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

Dutch - Physicist | July 16, 1888 - March 10, 1966

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Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

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How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

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With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

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About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

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Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Frits Zernike

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