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Frits Zernike

1888 - 1966

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frits Zernike is the 157th most popular physicist (down from 130th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 10th 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 157 out of 851. Before him are Walter Houser Brattain, Henry Moseley, Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, and Jean-Baptiste Biot. After him are Felix Bloch, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Frits Zernike ranks 21. Before him are John Logie Baird, Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, and Jean Monnet. After him are Raymond Chandler, Eugene O'Neill, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, and F. W. Murnau. Among people deceased in 1966, Frits Zernike ranks 14. Before him are Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, and Sergei Korolev. After him are George de Hevesy, Cemal Gürsel, Felix Steiner, Ken Miles, L. E. J. Brouwer, and Montgomery Clift.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Frits Zernike ranks 54 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan Steen (1626), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Max Euwe (1901), Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907), Isabelle de Charrière (1740), and Ruud Gullit (1962). After him are Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Tobias Asser (1838), Thomas Bernhard (1931), Paul Verhoeven (1938), Rem Koolhaas (1944), and Jacob Roggeveen (1659).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Frits Zernike ranks 10. Before him are Pieter Zeeman (1865), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Peter Debye (1884), Simon van der Meer (1925), and Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920). After him are Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), and Hendrik Casimir (1909).

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