Zeiss or Zeiß may refer to:
People
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Carl Zeiss
Carl Zeiss (; 11 September 1816 – 3 December 1888) was a German scientific instrument maker, optician and businessman. In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as Carl Zeiss AG. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practica ...
(1816–1888), German optician and entrepreneur
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Emil Zeiß
Emil Zeiß (2 July 1833 – 14 April 1910) was a German Protestant minister and painter. His body of work includes 33 sketchbooks and 1092 identified individual works, largely donated by his son to the Lippe Museum.
Life
Zeiß was born in th ...
(1833–1910), German Protestant minister and painter
Companies
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Carl Zeiss AG
Carl Zeiss AG (), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the f ...
, German manufacturer of optics, industrial measurements and medical devices founded by Carl Zeiss
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Carl Zeiss Foundation
The Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation), legally located in Heidenheim an der Brenz and Jena, Germany, and with its administrative Headquarter in Stuttgart, is the sole shareholder of the two companies Carl Zeiss AG and Schott AG. It was ...
, holding company for several Zeiss companies
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Carl Zeiss Meditec
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is a multinational medical technology company and subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG. It manufactures tools for eye examinations and medical lasers as well as solutions for neurosurgery, dentistry, gynecology and oncology. Among i ...
AG, a Zeiss subsidiary
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Carl Zeiss SMT
Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH comprises the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology business group of ZEISS and develops and produces equipment for the manufacture of microchips. The company is majority owned by Carl Zeiss AG, with a 24.9% minority stake by ...
, a Zeiss subsidiary
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Schott AG
Schott AG is a German multinational glass company specializing in the manufacture of glass and glass-ceramics. Headquartered in Mainz, Germany, it is owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The company's founder and namesake, Otto Schott, is credi ...
, a Zeiss subsidiary
Institutions and organizations
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Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena
The Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena is a state-funded German elite gymnasium school (grammar school) teaching highly gifted students in the fields of math, science, and technology. Before changing its profile to fully focus on these aspects, it was a ...
a School in Jena, Germany.
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FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Obe ...
, football club founded in 1903 by workers at Carl Zeiss optics company
Technologies
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Zeiss formula
In photographic optics, the Zeiss formula is a supposed formula for computing a circle of confusion (CoC) criterion for depth of field (DoF) calculations. The formula is c = d/1730, where d is the diagonal measure of a camera format, film, sensor ...
, a formula for depth of field calculations.
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Zeiss projector
A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the Carl Zeiss Company.
Main models include Copernican (1924), Model I (1925), Model II (1926), Model III (1957), Model IV (1957), Model V (1965), Model VI (1968) ...
, a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by one of the Zeiss companies
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Zeiss Planar
The Zeiss Planar is a photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at Carl Zeiss in 1896. Rudolph's original was a six-element symmetrical design.
While very sharp, early versions of the lens suffered from flare due to its many air-to-glass surf ...
, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1896
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Zeiss Sonnar
The Zeiss Sonnar is a photographic lens originally designed by Dr. Ludwig Bertele in 1929 and patented by Zeiss Ikon.Deutsche Patent 530843, 1929-08-14 It was notable for its relatively light weight, simple design and fast aperture.
The name ...
, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1924
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Zeiss Tessar
The Tessar is a photographic lens design conceived by the German physicist Paul Rudolph in 1902 while he worked at the Zeiss optical company and patented by Zeiss in Germany; the lens type is usually known as the Zeiss Tessar.
A Tessar comp ...
, a photographic lens patented by the Zeiss company in 1902
Other uses
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851 Zeissia
851 Zeissia is an S-type asteroid background asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt. Its diameter is about 12 km and it has an albedo of 0.2646 . Its rotation period is 9.34 hours.
The asteroid is named after the German optic ...
, an S-type asteroid named for Carl Zeiss
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Zeiss (comics)
The Batman family enemies are a collection of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters are depicted as adversaries of the superhero Batman and his allies.
Since Batman first appeared in ''Detectiv ...
, DC Comics villain
See also
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Zeis (disambiguation) Zeis may refer to:
* Adam Zeis (born 1978), American writer and podcaster
*Gland of Zeis
Glands of Zeis are unilobar sebaceous glands located on the margin of the eyelid. The glands of Zeis service the eyelash. These glands produce an oily substa ...
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