Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize Winner.
Dr. Ruska was awarded the nobel prize in 1986 for his invention of the electron microscope. The electron microscope, which was built in 1931 uses electrons instead of light to veiw a specimen. This new instrument permitted biologists, for the first time, to veiw virusus and other detailed structures inside cells. Many of these new veiws were 1 million times more detailed than what was being seen by light microscopes.
Dr. Ruska was a native of Germany and received his schooling at the Technical University of Berlin. In his life time Dr. Ruska recieved many awards for his development, and improvements on the electron microscope. He died in May of 1988 in West Berlin at the age of 81.

Submitted by Charles Barker