Zernike Awarded Nobel Prize
DEC 01, 1953
For Discovery of Phase Contrast
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061086
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.
© 1953. American Institute of Physics
