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Who discovered the microscope?


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  1. Microscope is used to observe a magnified version of minute particles or organisms.
  2. The design of the microscope revolutionized the research in many aspects of science.
  3. Scientist Could discover disease-causing micro-organisms, detect cell organelles and observe atomic and subatomic particles.
  4. Leeuwenhoek designed his own microscope, with which he observed unicellular animals, bacteria, red blood cells, and sperm for the first time.
  5. Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska designed an electron microscope for the first time in 1931, which produced a magnification of four hundred power.
  6. The earliest scanning-transmission electron microscope was designed by Manfred Von Ardenne in Berlin in 1937 to study the photoelectric effect.
  7. In 1981 Gerd Benning and Heinrich Rohrer discovered a scanning tunneling microscope to study the topology of different metals.
  8. Answer: Hans and Zacharias Janssen, 1590, who were spectacle makers in dutch designed the first simple microscope by placing two lenses of different power at the end of a tube. They could observe the enlargement of minute particles through the tube.

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