History of Microscope

1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a simple microscope with only one lens. He was the first person to describe bacteria, and he invented new methods for grinding and polishing microscope lens. 1932 Frits Zernike invented the phasecontrast microscope that allowed for the study of colorless and transparent biological materials.

1590 Zaccharias Janssen and Hans Janssen experimented with multiple lenses placed in a tube. They observed that viewed objects in front of the tube appeared greatly enlarged.

1931 Ernst Ruska invented the electron microscope, that depends on electrons rather than light to view an object.

1981 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope that gives threedimensional images of objects down to the atomic level.

1665 Robert Hooke looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it. 1000AD Circa invented the first vision aid was invented called a reading stone laid on top of reading materials.

Anatomy & Physiology (Group 2)