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Frits Zernike

Frits Zernike was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on July 16th, 1888. [1] Carl Frederick August Zernike’s, who was math teacher and a head of a primary school in Amsterdam, second son of six children. Frits Zernike was influenced a lot by his father. His father had a lot of interest in Science, so he produced a series of elementary books. Also, he had an article about his credit. Actually, it was not only his father that influenced him: his mother and brother. His mother, Antje Dieperink, was also the mathematics teacher. One of his brother was a physics professor.

From 1938 to 1948, he solved the problem of the influence of lens aberrations on the diffraction pattern at a focus. At first, his discovery of the phase-contrast phenomenon did not really capture the attentions from the public. However, after the coopration with German C. Zeiss,  people started to have attentions on his work. Later, his work was recognized by the Royal Microscopical Society for making the phase-contrast microscope.  Also,  he was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society and an honorary doctorate in Medicine from the University of Amsterdam. At the last, he got Novel Prize for the formation of phase-contrast microscope. Frits Zernike’s discovery also helped coherence theory’s formation. [2]

1.http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1953/zernike-bio.html

2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Zernike

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