Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss

male, deceased (1888)
Carl Zeiss (September 11, 1816 - December 3, 1888) was an optician commonly known for the company he founded, Zeiss. Zeiss himself also made a few...
John Dollond

John Dollond

male, deceased (1761)
John Dollond (June 10, 1706 - November 30, 1761) was an English optician. Dollond was the son of a Huguenot refugee, a silk-weaver at Spitalfields,...
Hans Lippershey

Hans Lippershey

male, deceased (1619)
Hans Lippershey (1570-September 1619) was a Dutch lensmaker. He was born in Wesel, in western Germany. He settled in Middelburg in the Netherlands,...
Alvan Clark

Alvan Clark

male, deceased (1887)
Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the decendant of a Cape Cod whaling family, was an American...
James Short

James Short

male, deceased (1768)
James Short (June 10, 1710 - June 15, 1768) was a British mathematician, optician and telescope maker. Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally...

George Adams

male, deceased (1795)
George Adams Sr (1773) was an English optician and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes....

William Jones

male
William Jones (1763-1831) was an English optician and instrument maker who later formed a partnership with his younger brother Samuel Jones. W. &...
Peter Dollond

Peter Dollond

male, deceased (1821)
Peter Dollond (February 24, 1731 - July 2, 1821 born Kensington, England) was an English optician, the son of John Dollond. Working together with...
Jesse Ramsden

Jesse Ramsden

male, deceased (1800)
Jesse Ramsden (October 6, 1735 - November 5, 1800) was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker. Ramsden was born at Salterhebble...
Bernhard Schmidt

Bernhard Schmidt

male, deceased (1935)
Bernhard Schmidt was an Estonian-born optician who lived in Germany. In 1931 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for spherical...