List of Famous people with last name Plossl

Simon Plössl

First Name Simon
Last Name Plössl
Born on September 19, 1794
Died on January 29, 1868 (aged 73)
Born in Austria

Simon Plössl was an Austrian optical instrument maker. Initially trained at the Voigtländer company, he set up his own workshop in 1823. His major achievement at the time was the improvement of the achromatic microscope objective. Today he is best known for the eponymous Plössl telescope eyepiece, which follows his 1860 design and has been used extensively by amateur astronomers since the 1980s.

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