Scientific equipment optician

A scientific equipment optician is an individual who makes and adjusts other optical aids, including telescope optics and microscope lenses. See also Optician for individuals who make and adjust glasses.

Telescope opticians

 * James Gilbert Baker
 * Denis Albert Bardou
 * John A. Brashear
 * Laurent Cassegrain
 * Henri Chrétien
 * Alvan Clark
 * John Dollond
 * Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin
 * Galileo Galilei
 * James Gregory
 * John Hadley
 * Chester Moore Hall
 * Robert Hooke
 * Johannes Kepler
 * Frederick James Hargreaves
 * Christiaan Huygens
 * Hans Lippershey
 * Raymond Augustin Mailhat
 * Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov
 * James Henry Marriott
 * Jacob Metius
 * Isaac Newton
 * Georg Simon Plössl
 * Russell W. Porter
 * Jesse Ramsden
 * George Willis Ritchey
 * Christoph Scheiner
 * Bernhard Schmidt
 * James Short

See also Timeline of telescope technology and List of astronomical instrument makers

Microscope opticians

 * Ernst Karl Abbe
 * Denis Albert Bardou
 * Christopher Cock
 * Siegfried Czapski
 * Cornelius Drebbel
 * Galileo Galilei
 * Robert Hooke
 * Christiaan Huygens
 * Carl Kellner
 * Anton van Leeuwenhoek
 * Moritz von Rohr

See also Timeline of microscope technology