Lili Bleeker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch mathematician and natural scientist
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1897
Place of Birth: Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 08-Nov-1985
Profession: scientist, physicist, mathematician, resistance fighter, instrument maker
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Lili Bleeker
- Caroline Emilie "Lili" Bleeker (17 January 1897 – 8 November 1985) was a Dutch entrepreneur and physicist from Middelburg known for her designs and the manufacturing of optical instruments.
- In the era she grew up, it was the norm for women to become housewives whose chief roles were to perform domestic duties, but Bleeker did not want to conform to these standards.
- She wanted to pursue an education, and never married her life-long partner, Gerard Willemse, which was quite anomalous at the time.
- She would later emerge as one of the first women in the Netherlands to become a doctor in physics and mathematics.
- After earning her PhD, she founded a physics consultancy firm, which served as an influence for the formation of TNO, and extended her firm by establishing a small factory where scientific and optical instruments were produced.Bleeker's firm took a huge hit due to the effects of the Second World War.
- Sales plummeted, she had to fire some of her employees and pay the ones who remained out of her own pocket.
- Bleeker, along with her partner Willemse, had to go into hiding due to her actions in successfully eluding Jews from the German Officers when they invaded her factory.
- She re-emerged her firm after the end of the war.
- Because of her actions in the war, Bleeker was awarded the Royal Distinction by the Dutch army, and was later granted a recovery loan by the government to open up a new factory in Zeist.
- Her company manufactured the optical instruments required for the development of the phase contrast microscope, which was invented by Frits Zernike who received the Nobel prize in 1953 for this invention, and held his patents on the design.
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