Manfred von Ardenne 1907 - 1997
- occupation:
- Inventor,
- Physicist,
- Researcher
- Nationality:
- German
- born in:
- Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1928 - established private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik in Berlin-Lichterfelde, to conduct research on radio and television technology and electron microscopy;
took out c. 600 patents; developed a scanning electron microscope
