Ernst Abbe
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Ernst Abbe
A German mathematician and physicist (1840–1905), professor at Jena, and inventor of optic devices at Zeiss. He is associated with the Abbe limit and the Abbe theory of image formation.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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The number, named for
Ernst Abbe, a 19th -century professor at the University of Jena and a partner in the Carl Zeiss optical glass firm, expresses an in verse ratio for the dispersion of light passing through a material.
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