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mar 21, 1932 - The phase-contrast microscope is invented.

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Frits Zernike invents the phase-contrast microscope that allows the study of colorless and transparent biological materials. He won a physics nobel prize for this in 1953

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mar 21, 1932
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~ 94 years ago