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Modern Microscopy On the Light Side

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Skip Paienik
Skip Paienik*
Affiliation:
McCrone Associates, Inc.

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Developments in microscopy in the last twenty years or so have been dramatic and impressive. Not only can individual atoms be seen with relatively inexpensive instruments, but is even possible to manipulate them, fulfilling the prophecies made by Richard Feyrman in his “Room at the Bottom” address given in 1959. Why, one might reasonably ask. when it is possible to observe, manipulate, and identify single atoms, would someone want to waste their time with an instrument so “old fashioned” as a light microscope?

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 0 , Issue 6 , August 1992 , pp. 2
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1992

References

* For a recent summary of this classic talk see “The Man Who Dared to Think Small,” Science 254: 29 November 1991, p. 1300-1.