electron microscope
noun
: an electron-optical instrument in which a beam of electrons is used to produce an enlarged image of a minute object
electron microscopist
noun
electron microscopy
noun
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By Ivan Amato edited by Gary Stix In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one of its signature behaviors, could be an agent of viral transmission.
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Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2025
This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions.
—CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
The whole show was viewed using high-vacuum transmission electron microscopes.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2024
Ruska developed the first electron microscope in 1933, and Binnig and Rohrer developed the scanning tunneling microscope together in 1981.
—Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024
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Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2025
This electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a cluster of norovirus virions.
—CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
The whole show was viewed using high-vacuum transmission electron microscopes.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2024
Ruska developed the first electron microscope in 1933, and Binnig and Rohrer developed the scanning tunneling microscope together in 1981.
—Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Electron microscope.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electron%20microscope. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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