Last year marked the 100^th anniversary of the death of Ernst Abbe, who passed away on January 14, 1906-just a few days short of his 65^th birthday. In addition to his groundbreaking optical work, which includes his diffraction theory for image formation and the formulation of the sine condition and Abbe number, he was also a noted entrepreneur, astronomer and social reformer.

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