Bodo von Borries (Herford (Westphalia), May 22, 1905 - Aachen, July 17, 1956) was a German electrical engineer. He had a significant contribution to the development of the electron microscope. biography
Bodo was born as son of the Land Council Franz von Borries. In 1924 he studied mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Technical University. Starting with the winter semester of 1926/27 he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Danzig, then until the end of 1928 in Munich. From April 1929 he worked in the high-voltage laboratory at the Technical University of Berlin, where he obtained a PhD in the thesis "Außenaufnahme am Kathodenstrahloszillographen" in 1932.
After that, he was a full-time assistant at Max Knoll, who in 1931 invented the electron microscope together with Ernst Ruska. With Ruska he developed a long-standing friendship in the years after which he regularly exchanged vivid scientific thoughts with him. In 1937 he married Ruska's younger sister: Hedwig Ruska.
In 1932, Borries went to the industry. First, he worked as an engineer at RWE in Essen and from 1934 to 1937 as a leader in a laboratory for the development of overvoltage protection devices at the Siemens-Schuckert factories in Berlin. His initiative led to Siemens & amp; Halske in Berlin began the development of a commercial version of the electron microscope, jointly led by him and Ruska. In 1938, a first prototype of the Siemens electron microscope was built, followed a year later by the first production model.
In 1948, he founded the Rheinisch-Westfälische Institut für Übermikroskopie in Düsseldorf. He was also involved in the establishment of the German Society for Electron Microscopy in 1949. At the same time, he was appointed honorary professor at the Medical Academy Düsseldorf, the current Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. In 1953 he was appointed as an ordinary professor at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hogeschool van Aken and where he was involved in the installation of an electronics optics and fine mechanics chair. He worked there until his sudden death in 1956. Two years before, he was still elected Chairman of the International Federation of Electron Microscope Societies.
In 1941, for his merits, Bodo von Borries received the silver Leibniz medal of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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