"About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting."
- Frits ZernikeDutch physicist Frits Zernike made important advances in the field of optics. He was born in 1888, but his most famous contribution is the development of phase contrast microscopy, for which he was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics. The creation and application of diffraction gratings is one n…