Seeing the invisible.The introduction of electron microscopy in great britain
- Roca Rosell, Antoni (coord.)
Verlag: Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica ; Institut d'Estudis Catalans
ISBN: 978-84-9965-108-8
Datum der Publikation: 2012
Seiten: 823-828
Kongress: European Society for the History of Science. International Conference (4. 2010. Barcelona)
Art: Konferenz-Beitrag
Zusammenfassung
During the twentieth century, life sciences experienced notable progress thanks to the development of new and improved instruments coming from the field of physics, such as the electron microscope. However, life scientists originally proved very reluctant to incorporate this new technique into their research. In fact, the development of such a new instrument was a consequence of a general concern in the scientific and industrial analysis of materials. In Britain, it was considerations of the potential uses and applications of the new technique, together with the war context, what highly influenced the development and consolidation of electron microscopy, promoted by a new community of scientists engaged in the study of both organic and inorganic structures.