In 1931, electromagnetic lenses helped scientists see a world ordinary microscopes could not reach

In 1931, physicists Knoll and Ruska unveiled the first electron microscope, revolutionizing science by using magnetic lenses ...
Los Angeles Times

James Hillier, 91; designed first practical electron microscope

James Hillier, the Canadian-born physicist who made the first practical electron microscope, then personally convinced hundreds of scientists to use it, has died. He was 91. Hillier died of a stroke ...
Wired

April 20, 1940: Electron Microscope Crosses the Atlantic; Zworykin Crosses the Delaware

1940: Vladimir Zworykin, better known as a co-inventor of television, demonstrates the first electron microscope in the United States. Once again, the Russian emigré improves but does not, strictly ...
Science Daily

Imaging Lithium With An Electron Microscope: One Angstrom Microscope Captures Lithium Ions, A First For Electron Microscopy

For the first time researchers have used a transmission electron microscope -- the One Angstrom Microscope (OÅM) at the Department of Energy's National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at ...