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.

Joseph Walter Jackson was born July 26, 1928, in Fountain Hill, Ark. He was 12 when his parents separated, and he followed his father, a schoolteacher, to Oakland, Calif.

Saving countless lives, the Lister way… On March 16, 1867, Joseph Lister published a paper with results announcing his antiseptic system in The Lancet.What followed was a series of articles, On ...

Joseph Lister was born on April 5, 1827, at Upton House in Essex, the son of Joseph Jackson Lister FRS, wine merchant and microscopist, and Isabella Harris.

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 ...

Joseph Jackson hailed from Arkansas and had 10 children with his wife Katherine: sons Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Brandon (Marlon's twin, who died as an infant), ...

It’s story time. Time for a brief history of the beginnings of antiseptic surgical techniques developed by the English surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister. Lister (1827-1912) was born just east ...