Frits Zernike's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

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Frederik "Frits" Zernike (Dutch: [frɪt ˈsɛrnikə]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope. The birth-card coordinate for July 16 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1953 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1953 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope

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Frits Zernike in the public record

Frederik Zernike was born on 16 July 1888 in Amsterdam, the second son of Carl Frederik August Zernike and Antje Dieperink. Both parents were teachers of mathematics, and he especially shared his father's passion for physics. In 1905, he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam, studying chemistry (his major), mathematics, and physics. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1912 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1915. In 1912, Zernike was awarded a prize for his doctoral work on opalescence in gases. In 1913, he became assistant to Jacobus Kapteyn in the astronomical laboratory at the University of Groningen. In 1914, Zernike and Leonard Ornstein were jointly responsible for the derivation of the Ornstein–Zernike equation in critical-point theory. In 1915, he became lector in theoretical mechanics and mathematical physics at the same university and in 1920 he was promoted to Professor of Mathematical Physics.

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In 1905, he enrolled at the University of Amsterdam, studying chemistry (his major), mathematics, and physics.

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Also on the record

1. In 1930, Zernike was conducting research into spectral lines when he discovered that the so-called ghost lines that occur to the left and right of each primary line in spectra created by means of a diffraction grating, have their phase shifted from that of the primary line by 90 degrees.
2. It was at a Physical and Medical Congress in Wageningen in 1933, that Zernike first described his phase contrast technique in microscopy.
3. He extended his method to test the figure of concave mirrors.
4. His discovery lay at the base of the first phase contrast microscope, built during World War II.

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