Frits Zernike
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1953for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope
- Citizenship
Kingdom of the Netherlands- Languages
- German, English, Dutch
- date of birth
- 7/16/1888
- place of birth
- Amsterdam
- date of death
- 3/10/1966
- place of death
- Amersfoort
- Lived
- 77 years
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- occupation
- university teacher
- physicist
- mathematician
- inventor
- chemist
- field of work
- physics
- educated at
- University of Amsterdam
- University of Groningen
- employer
- University of Groningen
- start time: 1915
- end time: 1920
- University of Groningen
- start time: 1920
- end time: 1920
- University of Groningen
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 4/26/1956
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- doctoral student
- Herman Johannes de Boer
- Hendrik Groendijk
- Clasine van Winter
- Christoffel Jacob Bouwkamp
- Harold Hopkins
- Bernard Nijboer
- notable work
- phase contrast microscopy