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Carl Zeiss
male, deceased - 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...
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John Dollond
male, deceased - 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,..
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Hans Lippershey
male, deceased - Hans Lippershey (1570-September
1619) was a Dutch lensmaker. He was born in Wesel, in western Germany. He settled in Middelburg in the Netherlands,...
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Alvan Clark
male, deceased - Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the decendant of a Cape Cod whaling family, was an American...
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James Short
male, deceased - James Short (June 10, 1710 - June 15, 1768) was a British mathematician, optician and telescope maker. Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally...
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George Adams
male, deceased - George Adams Sr (1773) was an English optician and scientific writer who was also well known as a maker of mathematical instruments and globes....
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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. &...
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Peter Dollond
male, deceased - Peter Dollond (February 24, 1731 - July 2, 1821 born Kensington, England) was an English optician, the son of John Dollond. Working together with...
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Jesse Ramsden
male, deceased - Jesse Ramsden (October 6, 1735 - November 5, 1800) was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker. Ramsden was born at Salterhebble...
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Bernhard Schmidt
male, deceased - Bernhard Schmidt was an Estonian-born optician who lived in Germany. In 1931 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for spherical...
