Ernst Ruska
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Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
First commercial Electron microscope, constructed by Ernst Ruska in 1939
Statue in Jena, Germany
Max Wolf
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Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heid
Ernst Ruska
…Rohrer won a quarter each for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope. He died in West Berlin in 1988. Asteroid 1178 Irmela, discovered by Max Wolf, is named after Ruska's wife Irmela, who was Wolf's niece. Nobel Prize press release…
Max Wolf
The Bruce double astrograph at Heidelberg Observatory