Education
University of Göttingen.
University of Göttingen.
Siedentopf worked in Carl Zeiss company from 1899 to 1938. In 1907 he was nominated as the head of the microscopy department. From 1919 till 1940 he was a. o.
Professor for microscopy at the University of Jena.
He also worked on the development of micro photography and slow motion and fast motion in the cinephotomicrography. In 1908 he invented together with August Köhler the fluorescence microscope.