Phase Contrast Microscope Objective
name: label: maker
content: American Optical Company
notes: label: Description
content: Phase contrast microscope objective lens. Fritz Zernike (1888-1966), a Dutch physicist, invented phase contrast microscopy in the early 1930s, and won a Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 1953.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Oscar W. Richards, Ph.D
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0500.042
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0500.042
label: accession number
content: 1986.0500
objectType: label: Object Name
content: microscope lens
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: lens: 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 2.8575 cm