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Ernst Abbe
Physicist, Academic
1840 – 1905
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Who was Ernst Abbe?
Ernst Karl Abbe was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments. He was a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of research microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums and other optical systems.
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- Born
- Jan 23, 1840
Eisenach - Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- University of Göttingen
- Employment
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
(1870 - ) - Titles in academia, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
(1878 - )
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Lived in
- Eisenach
- Jena
- Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Germany
- Died
- Jan 14, 1905
Jena
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on July 23, 2013
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