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A chemistry student has won a photo award for a striking image revealing a world most never see: the beauty of scientific ...

A chemistry student has won a photo award for a striking image revealing a world most never see: the beauty of scientific ...

Notre Dame University student has won a photography award for a striking image revealing a world most never see ...

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Late 1600s – Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek constructed a microscope with a single spherical lens. It magnified up to ×275. 1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the microscopes ...