Frits Zernike

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Professor Frits Zernike receives the telegram notifying him that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics while at his home in Groningen, the Netherlands. Flowers and further telegrams soon arrive. Professor Zernike then shows his phase contrast microscope in action.

From SF Veckorevy 1953-11-23.

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