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  • Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656 - 1725)
    Nicolaas Hartsoeker (26 March 1656, Gouda – 10 December 1725, Utrecht) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope circa 1694.Links:* Wiki Nicolaas Hartsoeke...
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    Richard Henderson
    Richard Henderson FRS (born 19 July 1945) is a Scottish molecular biologist and biophysicist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemis...
  • The Franklin Institute
    Joachim Frank
    Joachim Frank (born 12 September 1940 in Weidenau/Sieg) is a German-born biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-e...
  • EMBO reports 9(1)
    Jacques Dubochet
    Jacques Dubochet (born 8 June 1942) is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He is a former employee of EMBL Heidelberg and a professor at the University of Lausanne (1987-2007).He shared the Nobel Prize in Ch...

People (scientists, technicians, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, manufacturers...) involved in the development of microscopy. The project does not only include light microscopy. It should also include people who have been involved in the development of techniques that are important in microscopy but do not affect the microscopes themselves, such as staining methods for specimens.