Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

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Dr. Janet Rowley

In the 1970s, Dr. Janet Rowley identified a specific genetic “translocation” in leukemia, heralding a new understanding of the role of some translocations in specific cancers.

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Dr. Ruth Patrick - Biography

As a young girl she would accompany her father and sister on collecting excursions into nearby woods. “I collected everything: worms and mushrooms and plants and rocks,” Dr. Patrick told an interviewer in 2004. At the age of 7, she was given her first microscope. She was hooked.

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Robert Hooke

From: Westminster School
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

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Rowley wins National Medal of Science

Janet Davison Rowley (born April 5, 1925) is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. She was selected to receive the National Medal of Science for 1998

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Erwin W. Müller

Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or Mueller) (June 13, 1911, in Berlin – May 17, 1977, in Washington D.C.) was a German physicist who invented the field emission microscope, the field ion microscope, and the atom probe. The field ion microscope, capable of giving a resolution of 2.5 Å, provided the first sharp, clear view of crystals on an atomic scale, showing the individual atoms and their arrangement on the surface. For this achievement he became famous as the first person to "see" atoms.

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Blackburn Gets Personal, Reflects on Path Leading Up to Nobel Prize

A week after being named UCSF’s—and her native Australia’s—first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, sat down with UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, to discuss the elusive goal of work-life balance and the importance of following one’s passions and making time for “intense relaxation.”

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Mats G.L. Gustafsson, Ph.D

Mats Gustafsson is interested in creating new forms of biological light microscopy, especially modes with higher spatial resolution than is normally allowed by the diffraction limit.

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Charles Oatley: Pioneer of scanning electron microscopy

Charles Oatley stands with Manfred von Ardenne as one of the two great pioneers of scanning electron microscopy. Oatley's pioneering work led directly to the launch of the world's first series production instrument - the Stereoscan - in 1965.

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George E. Palade The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 Autobiography

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.

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George E. Palade: Legacy of a Distinguished Scientist:

In the early 1950s, Palade’s utilization of the then new technologies, such as electron microscopy and ultracentrifugation,brought understanding of the cell to a new level.

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James Hillier

James Hillier OC (August 22, 1915 – January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938.

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James Hillier: Electron Lens Correction Device

National Inventors Hall of Fame ™

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John Maxwell Cowley 1923–2004

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Keith R. Porter

Keith Roberts Porter (1912-1997) was a Canadian cell biologist. He did pioneering biology research using electron microscopy of cells [1], such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia.

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Blackburn Gets Personal, Reflects on Path Leading Up to Nobel Prize

A week after being named UCSF’s—and her native Australia’s—first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, sat down with UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, to discuss the elusive goal of work-life balance and the importance of following one’s passions and making time for “intense relaxation.”

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George E. Palade The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 Autobiography

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures.

Link: George E. Palade The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 Autobiography

Dr. Janet Rowley

In the 1970s, Dr. Janet Rowley identified a specific genetic “translocation” in leukemia, heralding a new understanding of the role of some translocations in specific cancers.

Link: Dr. Janet Rowley

George E. Palade: Legacy of a Distinguished Scientist:

In the early 1950s, Palade’s utilization of the then new technologies, such as electron microscopy and ultracentrifugation,brought understanding of the cell to a new level.

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