Apochromat
Lente apocromática
- Date
- 1886 · confidence high
- Place
- Jena, Thuringia, Germany
- Credited to
- Ernst Abbe
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Physicist Ernst Abbe developed the apochromatic lens at the Zeiss optical workshop in Jena, correcting chromatic and spherical aberration more precisely than conventional achromatic lenses and sharpening microscopes and photographic lenses.
What it led to
- High-resolution Zeiss microscopes
- Sharper photographic lenses
- Advances in precision industrial optics