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Ernst Ruska

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906, Heidelberg - May 25, 1988, Berlin) was a German physicist.
In 1931 he built the first electron microscope, and in 1986 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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