
Person
Ernst Ruska
1906 – 1988 · aged 82
German physicist (1906–1988)
- Born
- 25 Dec 1906 · Heidelberg
- Died
- 27 May 1988 · West Berlin
Life timeline
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Showing 94 years
- 25 Dec 1906BornBorn in Heidelberg
- 1941AwardSilver Leibniz medal
- 1960AwardAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1970AwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 1975AwardCothenius Medal
- 1975AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
- 1985AwardErnst Reuter Medal
- 1986AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 1986AwardRobert Koch Gold Medal
- 27 May 1988DiedDied in West Berlin
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1906 – 1988).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (German pronunciation: [ɛʁnst ˈʁʊskaː] ; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.
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