Frits Zernike Death Anniversary

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Frits Zernike died on 10 March, 1966

Dutch physicist and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing the phase contrast microscope. The microscope allows internal structure of living cells to be studied without the need of staining and thus killing the cells.