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Otto Schott

A man with gray hair and a beard wearing glasses and a dark suit stands against a dark background.

German chemist, 1851–1935, who developed the first systematically engineered optical glasses. After corresponding with Abbe in 1879 about a lithium-doped sample he had made in his father's glassworks, Schott moved to Jena and co-founded the Schott Glaswerke. His borosilicate and barium compositions made Abbe's microscope designs physically realisable and later produced the heat-resistant laboratory glass that still bears his name.

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