Scientific Equipment Optician
- Scientific Equipment Optician
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.
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
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
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