Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's work, specimens were typically stained with organic dyes with such colorful names as coomassie blue and malachite green. These dyes either ...

This new imaging system merges high-speed photography with a century-old technique called phase-contrast microscopy, invented by Dutch physicist Frits Zernike. Phase-contrast microscopy leverages ...