History of Microscope

It comes from the Ancient Greek micros meaning “small” and skopein, which means “to look”, is a tool which can help you see tiny objects and living organism.

• Microscope

• Telescope

• Magnifying Glass

• Eye Glass

The science of investigating small objects and structures using such an instrument.

• Biology

• Microscopy

• Zoology

• Botany

Who invented the first compound microscope?

• Isaac Newton

• Robert Hooke

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Hans & Zacharias Janssen

Who invented the ultra- microscope which allows the observation of specimens beyond the wavelength of light?

• Robert Hooke

• Richard Zsigmondy

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Hans & Zacharias Janssen

He added a focusing device to his microscope and of course went on to explore the heavens with his telescopes.

• Robert Hooke

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

• Galileo Galilei

• Joseph Jackson Lister

He was credited for the compound prototype microscope which reduces spherical aberration or the “chromatic effect”

• Robert Hooke

• Galileo Galilei

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Joseph Jackson Lister

He was one of the first scientists able to observe bacteria movement in a single drop of pond water.

• Robert Hooke

• Galileo Galilei

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Joseph Jackson Lister

Who wrote the mathematical formula called the “Abbe Sine Condition”?

• Ernst Abbe

• Richard Zsigmondy

• Frits Zernike

• Maxx Knoll

Who invented the phase- contrast microscope in 1932?

• Ernst Abbe

• Frits Zernike

• Maxx Knoll

• Richard Zsigmondy

Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1925?

• Robert Hooke

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Richard Zsigmondy

• Joseph Jackson Lister