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Zernike Awarded Nobel Prize

DEC 01, 1953
For Discovery of Phase Contrast
Physics Today

Fritz Zernike, professor of theoretical physics at Groningen University, in Holland, has been named to receive the 1953 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, a contribution not only to physics but also to biology and medicine because of its usefulness in the study of living cells.

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