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e- THE MODERN UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE passes through a monochromatic filter which forms it into a mono- What Rife accomplished optically in the 1930s with his chromatic ray. The ray is then passed through a large coil that sur- Universal Microscope, Gaston Naessens accomplished with a Tounds the tube. The coil’s magnetic field divides the ray into combination-of optics and electronics in the 1940s in his | M™merous parallel rays that are then passed through a Kerr cell Somatoscope. Born on 16 March 1924 in Roubaix, France, which increases the frequency of the rays before being injected Gaston displayed a predisposition to be an inventor when at the — Mt0 the specimen. , _— ; age of five he built a little moving autolike toy from a Meccano ; The light, which contains the carrier and a mixture of selected set and powered it with an alarm clock spring. Later, he built a signals in the UV range, stimulates the biological material in the home-made motorcycle and a mini-airplane! Somatoscope to the point that the specimens give off their own light. (Rife referred to this as luminescence.) This is the key to education disrupted by the German invasion. Fortunately, Gaston the ultra-high resolution that has been achieved by Gaston and his fellow students escaped to Nice where they carricd on Naesscns. : . . . their education in exile. He was awarded a diploma from the Conventional microscopes pass light through the specimen Union Nationale Scientifique Francaise—a quasi-official institu- which theoretically limits the resolution of optical microscopes to tion under whose auspices the education of the displaced students the wavelength of light. The finest optical microscopes have continued, He did not bother seeking an equivalency degree from achieved magnification levels of 2,500 diameters. At levels above the de Gaulle government when the French rule was restored this, the resolution is limited by the wavelength of light and fur- iy ther magnification merely creates a blur! Higher resolutions have At the young age of twenty-one, frustrated by the limitations of A ‘ i