List of developers of optical scientific equipment

A developer of optical scientific equipment is an individual who makes and adjusts optical aids for scientific purposes, including telescope optics and microscope lenses.

Telescope developers

• James Gilbert Baker
• Denis Albert Bardou
• John A. Brashear
• Laurent Cassegrain
• Henri Chrétien
• Alvan Clark
• John Dollond
• Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin
• Galileo Galilei
• James Gregory
• John Hadley
• Chester Moore Hall
• Robert Hooke
• Johannes Kepler
• Frederick James Hargreaves
• Christiaan Huygens
• Hans Lippershey
• Raymond Augustin Mailhat
• Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov
• James Henry Marriott
• 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 developers

• Ernst Karl Abbe
• Denis Albert Bardou
• Christopher Cock
• Siegfried Czapski
• Cornelius Drebbel
• Galileo Galilei
• Robert Hooke
• Christiaan Huygens
• Carl Kellner
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
• Moritz von Rohr

See also Timeline of microscope technology

References