The Beginnings of Electron Microscopy - Part 1

1st Edition, Volume 220 - October 13, 2021
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: Peter W. Hawkes, Martin Hÿtch
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 5 0 7 - 6
eBook ISBN:
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The Beginnings of Electron Microscopy - Part 1, Volume 220 in the Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Electron-optical Research at the AEG Forschungs-Institut 1928-1940, On the History of Scanning Electron Microscopy, of the Electron Microprobe, and of Early Contributions to Transmission Electron Microscopy, Random Recollections of the Early Days, Early History of Electron Microscopy in Czechoslovakia, Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in Electron, Megavolt Electron Microscopy, Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Ultramicrotomy: Reminiscences and Reflections, and much more.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Foreword
Foreword to first edition
Preface by Ernst Ruska
Chapter One: Electron-optical research at the AEG Forschungs-Institut 1928–1940
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Short biographies of some of the people at the institute
3. Research on electron optics, 1928–1940
4. References from the book Zehn Jahre Elektronenmikroskopie
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Two: On the history of scanning electron microscopy, of the electron microprobe, and of early contributions to transmission electron microscopy
Abstract
1. Scanning electron microscopy, electron microprobe
2. Early contributions to transmission electron microscopy
3. Conclusion
4. Afterword by Peter Hawkes
5. Appreciation by Tom Mulvey
References
Chapter Three: A pioneer of electron microscopy: Hans Boersch (1909–1986)
Abstract
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Four: Raymond Castaing (1921–1998)
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Obituary
3. The “father” of microanalysis: Raymond Castaing, creator of a generation of scientific instruments, still in worldwide operation by Christian Colliex
4. Endnote
References
Chapter Five: Random recollections of the early days
Abstract
1. How I came into the subject
2. These I met along the way
3. Aid from America
4. Final word
5. Afterword by Peter Hawkes
References
Chapter Six: Early history of electron microscopy in Czechoslovakia
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Construction of the first electron microscope in Czechoslovakia
3. Desk transmission electron microscope BS 242
4. Production of electron microscopes in Czechoslovakia
5. Conclusion
6. Appendix A: bibliography of related publications
7. Appendix B: publications from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in Brno (in Czech)
8. Afterword by B. Lencová: Remembering Delong, Drahoš and Zobač
References
Chapter Seven: Personal reminiscences of early days in electron microscopy
Abstract
1. Preamble
2. Beginnings in Britain
3. The microscope at the Shirley Institute
4. Inconveniences of early electron microscopes
5. Group contacts in Britain during the war
6. Immediate postwar conferences in Europe
7. Specimen preparation and “the practice of electron microscopy”
8. Grids
9. A problem with photographic plates
10. Capabilities and use of electron microscopes during the war
11. Shadowcasting
12. Section cutting
13. Replicas and metallurgy
14. Optics of the electron microscope
15. Later instrumental developments
16. Conclusion
17. Gordon Drummond in Australia
References
Chapter Eight: Megavolt electron microscopy
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Early developments in electron microscopy
3. How I came to electron microscopy
4. Megavolt electron microscopy
5. Applications of HVEM
6. Resolution and contrast in megavolt electron microscopy
7. Future prospects
8. Afterword by Peter Hawkes
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Nine: Cryo-electron microscopy and ultramicrotomy: reminiscences and reflections
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The Nobel Institute for Physics
3. The diamond knife
4. The Venezuelan Institute for Neurology and Brain Research
5. Low-temperature electron microscopy and ultramicrotomy
6. Cryo-electron microscopy
7. Reflections and outlook
8. Afterword by Peter Hawkes
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter Ten: Dennis Gabor
Abstract
1. Early life
2. College life
3. Research in Germany and Hungary
4. Research in the British Thomson-Houston Company, 1934–48
5. Mullard readership in electronics: Imperial College 1949–58
6. Professorship at Imperial College, 1958–67
7. Retirement
8. Honours
List of publications by Dennis Gabor
Chapter Eleven: The French electrostatic electron microscope (1941–1952)
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Electron optics in occupied France
3. The liberation of the North of France and the transition to peace
4. Afterword by Peter Hawkes
References
Index

Peter W. Hawkes

Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.

Affiliations and expertise

Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and Fellow, Microscopy and Optical Societies of America; member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and Serial Editor, Advances in Electron Optics, France

Martin Hÿtch

Dr Martin Hÿtch, serial editor for the book series “Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics (AIEP)”, is a senior scientist at the French National Centre for Research (CNRS) in Toulouse. He moved to France after receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on “Quantitative high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)”, joining the CNRS in Paris as permanent staff member in 1995. His research focuses on the development of quantitative electron microscopy techniques for materials science applications. He is notably the inventor of Geometric Phase Analysis (GPA) and Dark-Field Electron Holography (DFEH), two techniques for the measurement of strain at the nanoscale. Since moving to the CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse in 2004, he has been working on aberration-corrected HRTEM and electron holography for the study of electronic devices, nanocrystals and ferroelectrics. He was laureate of the prestigious European Microscopy Award for Physical Sciences of the European Microscopy Society in 2008. To date he has published 130 papers in international journals, filed 6 patents and has given over 70 invited talks at international conferences and workshops.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Scientist, French National Centre for Research (CNRS), Toulouse, France

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