Seeing with Electrons

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The electron microscope

• http://sdm.uchc.edu/ProjectD/Knowledge/1.Texts/8.Ultrastructure/Intro2EM.html
  An introduction to electron microscopy in biology.
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• http://www.selmi.sumy.ua/cp1251/e/rem/rem105.html
  Information about the SEM-105B scanning electron microscope.
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The electron

• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/discoverage.html
  The Age of Discovery. The nineteenth century was a golden age of discovery for chemists and physicists, and saw a succession of major breakthroughs in understanding the nature of matter.
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• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/index.html
  100 years since the discovery of the electron. In 1897, in a laboratory at Cambridge University, J J Thomson discovered the electron, and proved that the atom was not the most basic building block of matter.
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• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/data.html
  Data on electrons.
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• http://www.aip.org/history/electron/jjlegacy.htm
  The legacy of the electron. Many questions remain unanswered, but in the last century, since the discovery of the electron, physicists have been centrally concerned with studying the structure of matter. They have achieved remarkable results. After the electron, many more fundamental particles were discovered, including photons, muons, quarks and leptons.
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Research at CERN

• http://www.cern.ch/Public/
  CERN's accelerators, and the quest to understand the structure of matter.
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IEE Faraday Lecture

• http://www.iee.org.uk/Lectures/faracrnt.htm
  Information about the 1999 IEE Faraday Lecture.
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