Richard Adolf Zsigmondy:
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-German chemist and Nobel Laureate.
Birth:
April 1, 1865 in Vienna, Austria
Death:
September 23, 1929 in Göttingen, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Zsigmondy was a Austrian-German chemist who was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into colloids. The invented the slit ultramicroscope to aid in his work. The ultramicroscope uses a high contrast background and very thin beam of light to illuminate colloid particles.