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Frits Zernike

1888 - 1966

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Frits Zernike (Dutch pronunciation: [frɪt ˈsɛrnikə]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frits Zernike has received more than 200,859 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Frits Zernike is the 130th most popular physicist (up from 140th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 67th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Physicist.

Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who invented the Zernike polynomials. These polynomials are used to describe the shape of a wavefront.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Frits Zernike ranks 130 out of 851. Before him are Julius von Mayer, C. V. Raman, Val Logsdon Fitch, François Englert, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Arno Allan Penzias. After him are Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, and William Henry Bragg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Frits Zernike ranks 21. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Raymond Chandler, John Logie Baird, Roland Garros, C. V. Raman, and Herbert Spencer Gasser. After him are Alexander Friedmann, Eugene O'Neill, Richard E. Byrd, Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, and T. S. Eliot. Among people deceased in 1966, Frits Zernike ranks 16. Before him are Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, Jean Arp, Peter Debye, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Giuseppe Farina. After him are Felix Steiner, Cemal Gürsel, George de Hevesy, Dietrich von Choltitz, Vincent Auriol, and Guillermo Stábile.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frits Zernike ranks 52 out of 1,646. Before him are Thomas Bernhard (1931), Peter Debye (1884), Max Euwe (1901), Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), and Rem Koolhaas (1944). After him are Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Michiel de Ruyter (1607), William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Sylvia Kristel (1952), and Paul J. Crutzen (1933).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Frits Zernike ranks 9. Before him are Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Pieter Zeeman (1865), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), and Peter Debye (1884). After him are Simon van der Meer (1925), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), and Samuel Goudsmit (1902).

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