What is Ernst Ruska?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Ernst Ruska |image = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|12|25|df=y}} |birth_name = Ernst August Friedrich Ruska |birth_place = [[Heidelberg]], [[Grand Duchy of Baden]], [[German Empire]] |residence = |nationality = [[Germany|German]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|5|27|1906|12|25|df=y}} |death_place = [[West Berlin]], [[Germany]] |field = [[Physics]] |work_institution = [[Fritz Haber Institute]]<br>[[Technical University of Berlin]] |alma_mater = [[Technical University of Berlin]]<br>[[Technical University of Munich]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Max Knoll]] |known_for = [[Electron microscope|Electron Microscopy]] |prizes = [[Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research]] <small>(1960)</small><br>[[Duddell Medal and Prize]] <small>(1975)</small><br>[[Robert Koch Prize]] {{small|(Gold, 1986)}}<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(1986)}} |footnotes = Ernst Ruska constructed the first transmission electron microscope (TEM) with his mentor Max Knoll }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Ernst August Friedrich Ruska''' (25 December 1906 &ndash; 27 May 1988) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physics|physicist]] who won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1986 for his work in [[electron optics]]. He helped create the design of the first [[electron microscope]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hawkes, Peter W.|title=Ernst Ruska|journal=Physics Today|date=July 1990|volume=43|issue=7|pages=84–85|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v43/i7/p84_s2?bypassSSO=1|doi=10.1063/1.2810640|bibcode=1990PhT....43g..84H|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215906/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v43/i7/p84_s2?bypassSSO=1|archive-date=2013-10-04}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruska, Ernst}} [[Category:1906 births]] [[Category:1988 deaths]] [[Category:German physicists]] {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{bio-stub}}