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  • In Zernike's "phase-contrast microscope" it is possible to distinguish patches of light that have undergone different phase changes caused by this kind of inhomogeneity.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • Nigel thumbed the focus of the phase-contrast microscope.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

  • Wehrmacht took stock of all inventions which might serve in the war that at last (in 1941) the first phase-contrast microscopes were manufactured.

    Frits Zernike - Biography 1964

  • The phase-contrast method has, however, many other and increasingly important applications in optics.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • It is interesting to know that his great discovery of the phase-contrast phenomenon, which he discovered one evening in

    Frits Zernike - Biography 1964

  • Zeiss factories at Jena completely underestimated the value of his phase-contrast microscope.

    Frits Zernike - Biography 1964

  • I have deliberately dwelt upon the description of the phase-contrast microscope as the result of Zernike's method which is, so far, the most valuable.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • Prize for Physics to Professor Frits Zernike, Groningen, for the phase-contrast method devised by him, and particularly for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • Sciences has awarded you the Nobel Prize in Physics for your eminent "method of phase contrast" and especially for your invention of the "phase-contrast microscope".

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • After the war, other firms also took up the production of many thousands of phase-contrast microscopes, thereby providing the service to science, and in particular to medicine, which should have been effectuated some twenty years earlier.

    Frits Zernike - Biography 1964

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