Oskar Heimstädt

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Contemporary representation of the first fluorescence microscope developed by Heimstädt. On the left the large lighting device, on the right the actual microscope. In between a quartz lens with a diameter of 70 mm and a focal length of 150 mm and the filter cuvette.

Oskar Gustav Heimstädt (born January 5, 1879 in Berlin ; † July 26, 1944 in Vienna ) was the developer of the first fluorescence microscope .

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Heimstädt started his apprenticeship at the optical institute CP Goerz in his hometown of Berlin , where he was introduced to the mathematics of optics by Emil von Höegh . In 1902 he went to the Viennese microscope manufacturer Karl Reichert , where he took over the management of the computing and design office. Over the next 30 years he was involved in most of his employer's innovations, including photographic lenses and metal microscopes.

He developed the first fluorescence microscope manufactured for this purpose, which Reichert presented in 1911. In the same year he published a scientific paper on the device.

source

  • Dieter Gerlach: History of Microscopy . Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8171-1781-9 , pp. 641 .
  • Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd Edition. tape 4 (Görres-Hittorp). KG Saur, Munich 2006 ( books.google.de ).

Individual proof

  1. ^ Oskar Heimstädt: The fluorescence microscope . In: Journal of Scientific Microscopy . tape 28 , 1911, pp. 330-337 ( online ).