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History of Microscope from the Magnifying Glass to the Field Emission Electron Microscope  

Park, Chang-Hyun (Electron Microscope Facility, Korea University College of Medicine)
Yeom, Mi-Jung (Electron Microscope Facility, Korea University College of Medicine)
Uhm, Chang-Sub (Department of Anatomy, Korea University College of Medicine)
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Applied Microscopy / v.33, no.2, 2003 , pp. 93-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since the Ptolemaeos' discovery that glass has magnifying power, human desire to see the unseen with naked eyes has lead to the inventions of a series of microscopes. Since the Janssen's first compound microscope in 1595, through the Abbe's non-aberration microscopy, various microscopes using different principles are now being used in various biomedical researches. The discovery of electron by Thompson in 1897 has lead to the first invention of microscope using electron as an illumination source, the electron microscope, in 1931. Now we can see the objects as close as 0.05 nm using 1 MV FE-TEM constructed in 2000. In this review, the authors reviewed the predecessors efforts to develop better microscopes.
Keywords
Electron microscope; History; Light microscope; Microscope;
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