biography
pronunciation:
[zairnikuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1888–1966)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Amsterdam. Professor of physics at Groningen University (1910–58), he developed the phase-contrast microscope (1938), which allows the study of internal cell structure without the use of stains that kill the cell. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953. |
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