Quotes & Sayings About Microscopy

On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. — Werner Arber

Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen. — Dan Shechtman

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth. — George Emil Palade

One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications. — Eric Betzig

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution. — Richard J. Borden

Cell-specific lectin Ulex europaeus agglutinin as observed by fluorescence microscopy (Fig.1) — Anonymous

I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over. — Stefan Hell

When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. — Christian De Duve