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Frits Zernike

Born on July 16, 1888

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Frederik "Frits" Zernike (Dutch:; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.

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