Joseph Lister's father helped usher in the modern microscope—and his son's future career. ... Joseph Jackson Lister, who was an English wine merchant and amateur scientist.

One of the earliest optical microscopes made for Joseph Jackson Lister, father of Joseph Lister (L), and a microscope that may be used today. Getty Images; Shutterstock.

Joseph was a child of Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869) wine merchant and microscopist, and his wife Isabella (Harris) and was born at Upton in Essex on 5th April 1827. His brother Arthur (1830-1908) ...

Joseph Lister was born in 1827 in Essex, now in London, into a prosperous family. His father Joseph Jackson Lister was a wine merchant and an amateur physicist and microscopist.

However, the production of better quality glass allowed Joseph Jackson Lister, father of Joseph Lister, in 1826 to make a microscope with 1,000 times magnification.

In 1830, English opticist Joseph Jackson Lister developed a lens that reduced an aberration that had previously plagued people using microscopes: the persistent apparation of a colored edge around ...