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1400
Grinding lenses
developed in italy, used to make spectacles to improve eyesight. -
Zacharias (and Hans) Janssen
make the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube. -
Robert Hooke
described his observations of various objects with his microscope and publishes his results in Micrographia. He used the word "cell" to describing biological organisms. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Known as the father of microbiology. He designed a single-lens microscope and used it to be the first to work with microbes. -
Joseph Jackson Lister
found that several weak lenses could be used together at certain distances to give good magnification without the image being blurry. -
Ernst Abbe
discovered the resolution limit of a microscope. -
Frits Zernike
invents the phase-contrast microscope. -
Ernst Ruska
develops the electron microscope. -
Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
invented the scanning tunneling microscope.