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Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956)

Bodo von Borries

German physicist

Bodo von Borries was a German physicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope.
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Electron microscope

Type of microscope with electrons as a source of illumination

An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to control the electron beam, for instance focusing it to produce magnified images or…
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