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Zernike

[zair-ni-kuh, zur-; Dutch zer-ni-kuh]
noun
  1. Frits [frits; Dutch frits] /frɪts; Dutch frɪts/, 1888–1966, Dutch physicist: Nobel prize 1953.
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