Scientific Equipment Optician

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A Scientific equipment optician is an individual who makes and adjusts other optical aids, including telescope optics and microscope lenses. See also Optician for individuals who make and adjust eyeglasses.

[edit] Telescope opticians

• James Gilbert Baker
• John A. Brashear
• Laurent Cassegrain
• Henri Chrétien
• Alvan Clark
• Leonard Digges
• John Dollond
• Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin
• Galileo Galilei
• James Gregory
• John Hadley
• Chester Moore Hall
• Robert Hooke
• Zacharias Janssen
• Johannes Kepler
• Frederick James Hargreaves
• Christiaan Huygens
• Hans Lippershey
• Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov
• Jacob Metius
• Isaac Newton
• Georg Simon Plössl
• Russell W. Porter
• Jesse Ramsden
• George Willis Ritchey
• Christoph Scheiner
• Bernhard Schmidt
• James Short

See also Timeline of telescope technology and List of astronomical instrument makers

[edit] Microscope opticians

• Ernst Karl Abbe
• Christopher Cock
• Siegfried Czapski
• Cornelius Drebbel
• Galileo Galilei
• Robert Hooke
• Christiaan Huygens
• Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen
• Carl Kellner
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Moritz von Rohr

See also Timeline of microscope technology