ZERNIKE, Frits Frits Zernike, 80, of Essex, died July 12. He was married for 49 years to Barbara Backus Zernike, who survives him, as do his children, Frits III, Harry, and Kate; his daughter- and … ...

The Zernike polynomial, named after Dutch physicist Frits Zernike, is more recent in origin, having been described in the first half of the 20th century. It specifically relates to optics, Dr ...

The Frits Zernike Award, founded in 2002 by SPIE (a major academic society for lithography technology), is a prestigious award, often spoken of as the "Nobel prize of the lithography world", and ...

Frits Zernike, 80, of Essex, died on July 12. He was the husband of 49 years to Barbara Backus Zernike. He was born in Groningen, The Netherlands, and spent an interim year studying at Johns ...

Frits Zernike, who gave his name to the award, was a Dutch chemist, physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for the invention of the phase contrast microscope. The ...

In 1930, physicist Frits Zernike was studying the optics of diffraction gratings when his lab obtained a large concave grating. Owing to its size, Zernike had to position a small telescope 6 ...