biography
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| lived:
| (1906–88)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Heidelberg, SWC Germany. He studied high voltage and vacuum methods at Munich and Berlin, and from 1928 worked on the development of the electron microscope. His transmission electron microscope achieved magnifications of up to 106×, compared with 2000× for a good optical microscope, and its commercial availability (from 1938 onwards) revolutionized biology. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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