New worlds for sight
SEP 01, 1948
Several decades ago no one ever expected to see molecules, but electron microscopists are reaching down to expose them to the sight of man. A pioneer in this field tells how this new and rapidly improving instrument works, and what its potentialities are.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066134
There is a scientific device that will measure the intensity, the wave‐length, and the position of all of four or five million spots of light and do that every tenth of a second or less for many hours a day. This superb tool—a pair of eyes—also retains in itself a record of the measurements it has made to be recalled at any time for comparison with new measurements.
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James Hillier, Radio Corporation of America.
© 1948 American Institute of Physics
