Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Frits Zernike

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Dutch physicist Frits Zernike.
Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Frits Zernike

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

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics. — © Frits Zernike
Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.
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.
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.
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
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