Who are the people involved in the invention of microscope?

Question

Who are the people involved in the invention of microscope?

Answer 1

1597 two Dutch eyeglass makers, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans were experimenting with lenses in a tube

Galileo also designed a compound microscope, but it was only useful for reflected light

Robert Hooke built the first useable British compound microscope in about 1655.

The single lens microscopes made by a Dutch amateur lens grinder Antonie van Leeuwenhoek were far superior to the early compound instruments.

Van Leeuwenhoek, in about 1670, developed a method for grinding very small glass lenses.

In 1847 Carl Zeiss started making simple microscopes in Jena, Germany. in 1872 Ernst Abbe joined the firm. After Otto Schott, an optical glass expert, joined the firm in 1886.

advances made over the last 70 years and firms such as Zeiss, AO Spencer, Vickers, Leitz, Wild, Reichert, Nikon and Olympus and many others have produced a vast selection of different kinds of light microscope.

Electron Microscope was invented by Ruska in 1933

Scanning Electron Microscope was developed and in 1980 the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and variations.

Answer 2

Glass was invented some time during the first century. The Romans discovered that some of this glass would magnify objects. My guess  is that many people have been involved in improving magnifying glasses.