History Of The Microscopes

Question 1

What was the name of the person(s) who invented the light microscope?

Answer 1

Hans Janssen and his son Zackarias.

Question 2

When was the light microscope invented and what was it based on?

Answer 2

Invented in the 1950s and was based on lenses in a tube.

Question 3

What are Light microscopes used to do?

Answer 3

Study living cells

Question 4

No observation from Hans Janssen’ microscope was published, it wasn’t until Robert Hooke and Anton van Leeuwenhoek as a …?

Answer 4

Scientific instrument was born.

Question 5

Transmission electron microscopes are microscopes that use a particle beam of electrons to visualise specimens and generate a …?

Answer 5

Highly magnified image

Question 6

Scanning electron microscopes are microscopes that produce images of a sample by scanning the surface with a …?

Answer 6

Focused beam of electrons.

Question 7

Transmission electron microscopes were invented in …?

Answer 7

1931

Question 8

Scanning electron microscopes were invented in ..?

Answer 8

1935

Question 9

What type of microscope should we use if we are looking at the interior of cells?

Answer 9

Transmission microscopes

Question 10

We can use scanning electron microscopes for the identification of microorganisms and especially the identification of …?

Answer 10

Fungal species