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Bodo von Borries (born 22 May 1905 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — died 17 July 1956 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) was a German physicist. He was the co-inventor of the electron microscope.

Von Borries studied electrical engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig (today Gdańsk University of Technology), and at Berlin (today Technische Universität Berlin), where he was awarded a PhD in 1932. Von Borries worked at RWE from 1934 to 1937. In 1937 he commenced work on electron microscopy with Ernst Ruska at Siemens & Halske AG in Berlin. In 1937 von Borries 1937 married Hedwig Ruska, Ernst Ruska's sister.

After World War II, he founded the "Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Electron Microscopy" in Düsseldorf in 1948. In 1949, he was involved in the foundation of the German Society for Electron Microscopy.

In 1953 he became a full professor at the Technical University of Aachen and established its Department of Electron Optics and Precision Engineering, where he worked until his sudden death in 1956.

References

1. ^ Ernst Ruska (1956). "Bodo von Borries" (PDF). Physikalische Blätter (in German). 12 (10). Physik Verlag. ISSN 1521-3722. Retrieved 24 August 2013.

• 20th-century German physicists
• 1905 births
• 1956 deaths
• Gdańsk University of Technology alumni
• People from Herford
• Scientists from the Province of Westphalia
• Presidents of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
• Technische Universität Berlin alumni
• Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University