biography
| name: |
Lister, Joseph Jackson
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1786–1869)
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| biography:
| Wine merchant and amateur microscopist, born in London, UK. A wine merchant with an interest in optics, he developed a method of building lens systems to greatly reduce chromatic and spherical aberrations. In 1826 James Smith (d.1870) built a much improved microscope to Lister's design, and this was used a year later to produce the first competent article on histology. Lister was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1832. |
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