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History of Microscopes

Fill in the correct answers.

  1. What substance needed to be invented before a lens could be created? 

    What part of the world do we think it originated and approximately?

     

  2. What is a lens most similar to? 
    Who and when was this connection made?

     

  3. Hans and Zacharias Janssen are credited with making the first compound microscope.  What type of lens did they use?

     

  4. Who first proposed a better compound microscope but never made it?

     

  5. Who came up with the name “microscope?”

     

  6. Who first used the study of light to improve lenses?

     

  7. Antonie wan Leeuwenhoek used which type of microscope to look at little critters?

     

  8. Which physicist perfected the compound microscope and coined the term “cell?”

     

  9. Who created a microscope that corrected for spherical aberration or fuzziness along the margins?

     

  10. Who used many researchers work on electrons to create a workable electron microscope?

     

  11. Which microscope uses high voltage electron beams?

     

  12. A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) sees the world in what dimension?

     

  13. List 4 atomic types of microscopes.

     

  14. What physician was first to use the microscope in his research on human tissues and what branch of science did he help foster?

     

  15. How did Louis Pasteur use the microscope?

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