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Recent books and some conference proceedings are described.
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Books , Nobel Prize , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
The professional and private lives of Wolfgang Baumeister, Sir Colin Humphreys, John C.H. Spence and Knut Urban are retraced on the occasion of their 80th (Humphreys, Urban) and 75th (Baumeister, Spence) birthdays.
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Retirement , History, 20th CenturyABSTRACT
In 2019, Howie reaches the age of 85 and Colliex and Lichte, 75. Some moments in their scientific careers are evoked and their contributions to the theory of electron imaging, EELS and STEM and electron holography are recalled. Poetry, photography and music are not forgotten and nor are their families.
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Recent and not quite so recent books and conference proceedings on electron microscopy and related topics are surveyed. A few books on very different subjects are included to lighten the dough.
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Recent books and conference proceedings are surveyed, together with some lighter reading.
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The progress of electron lens aberration correction from about 1990 onwards is chronicled. Reasonably complete lists of publications on this and related topics are appended. A present for Max Haider and Ondrej Krivanek in the year of their 65th birthdays. By a happy coincidence, this review was completed in the year that both Max Haider and Ondrej Krivanek reached the age of 65. It is a pleasure to dedicate it to the two leading actors in the saga of aberration corrector design and construction. They would both wish to associate their colleagues with such a tribute but it is the names of Haider and Krivanek (not forgetting Joachim Zach) that will remain in the annals of electron optics, next to that of Harald Rose. I am proud to know that both regard me as a friend as well as a colleague.
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Recent books on microscopy and related topics, including bad writing, are examined.
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The careers in the theory and practice of electron microscopy of W.O. Saxton, D. Van Dyck and D.J. Smith are sketched briefly, with a small sample of their publications.
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Microscopy, Electron/history , Computer Simulation , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Holography/history , Holography/methods , Humans , Microscopy, Electron/methods , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission/history , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission/methods , Optics and Photonics/methodsABSTRACT
Recent publications of interest to ultramicroscopists are surveyed.
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The role of Gertrude Rempfer in the design of the Farrand and Elektros microscopes is evoked. The study of electron mirror optics, aberration correction using mirrors and the development of microscopes employing electron mirrors are recapitulated, accompanied by a full bibliography, of earlier publications in particular.
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Here are a few books for John Spence to read (or avoid) in the aftermath of his birthday festivities, preceded by some partially coherent reflections.
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Bibliographies as Topic , Microscopy, ElectronABSTRACT
Electron lenses are extremely poor: if glass lenses were as bad, we should see as well with the naked eye as with a microscope! The demonstration by Otto Scherzer in 1936 that skillful lens design could never eliminate the spherical and chromatic aberrations of rotationally symmetric electron lenses was therefore most unwelcome and the other great electron optician of those years, Walter Glaser, never ceased striving to find a loophole in Scherzer's proof. In the wartime and early post-war years, the first proposals for correcting C(s) were made and in 1947, in a second milestone paper, Scherzer listed these and other ways of correcting lenses; soon after, Dennis Gabor invented holography for the same purpose. These approaches will be briefly summarized and the work that led to the successful implementation of quadupole-octopole and sextupole correctors in the 1990 s will be analysed. In conclusion, the elegant role of image algebra in describing image formation and processing and, above all, in developing new methods will be mentioned.
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Nomura has recently claimed that a combination of magnetic lenses can be found that is free of spherical aberration. Doubt is cast on this claim.
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The asymptotic chromatic aberration coefficients of electron lenses may be written as polynomials in reciprocal magnification. Expressions for the polynomial coefficients of a doublet are derived in terms of those of the individual members of the doublet.
