Frits Zernike, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frits Zernike

Dutch physicist

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1888

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1966

Profession: physicist, mathematician, inventor, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Frits Zernike (Dutch pronunciation: [fr?ts 'z?rnik?]; 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.