Caroline Emilie Bleeker (1897 - 1985)
Field(s) of interest: scientific instrumentsGender: female
Born: Middelburg, 1897
Died: Zeist, 1985
Biography:
Caroline Emilie Bleeker had her own instrument making company in Utrecht and, later on, Zeist. Bleeker made physical instruments such as a galvanometer, precision resistors, slide resistors and compensators. From around 1938 Bleeker also started making optical instruments, such as prisms, spectroscopes and microscopes. After World War II, Bleeker sold mainly high-quality microscopes.
Occupations:
instrument maker: 1930 - 1963 (Utrecht)
Sources:
Offereins, M.I.C. 'Caroline Emilie Bleeker (1897-1985) : een vrouw in een fysisch bedrijf ', in: Gewina 20, no. 4 (1997), 297-308.