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Ernst Ruska
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German physicist (1906 to 1988) who, as a doctoral student under Max Knoll at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, helped build the first electron microscope in 1931 and achieved resolution beyond that of light microscopy by 1933; he was associated with Siemens from 1937 to 1955, where he helped mass-produce the instrument, and was awarded half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention.
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Ruska built the electron optics; Max Knoll led the engineering of the same 1931 to 1933 device and is credited alongside him.
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