Bodo von Borries, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bodo von Borries

German physicist

Date of Birth: 22-May-1905

Place of Birth: Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1956

Profession: engineer, physicist, inventor, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bodo von Borries (born 22 May 1905 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — died 17 July 1956 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German physicist.
He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope. Von Borries studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Danzig, and at Berlin Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a PhD in 1932.
Von Borries worked at RWE from 1934 to 1937.
In 1937 he commenced work on electron microscopy with Ernst Ruska at Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin.
In 1937 von Borries 1937 married Hedwig Ruska, Ernst Ruska's sister. After World War II , he founded the "Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Electron Microscopy" in Düsseldorf in 1948.
In 1949, he was involved in the foundation of the German Society for Electron Microscopy. In 1953 he became a full professor at the Technical University of Aachen and established its Department of Electron Optics and Precision Engineering, where he worked until his sudden death in 1956.