50 Great Moments Celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the University of Sydney's Electron Microscope Unit.

This captivating book presents 50 great moments from the past five decades of the Electron Microscope Unit's activities. Blending history and science in an engaging style, 50 Great Moments tells the story of the unit's creation and profiles the key figures that have forged the facility int...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ratinac, Kyle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2008.
Temas:
University of Sydney. > Electron Microscope Unit > History.
Electron microscopes > Australia.
Microscopes électroniques > Australie.
Electron microscopes
Australia
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half title page
  • Full title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of acronyms
  • Pre xes and units
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Towards an Electron Microscope Unit
  • The first director, Dr D Gordon Drummond
  • The early days of the Electron Microscope Unit
  • Transmission electron microscopy
  • Specimen preparation in the biological sciences
  • First vacation school in electron microscopy
  • Exploring the ultrastructure of plants
  • Academic status
  • "a rose by any other name ..."
  • Scanning electron microscopy
  • Specimen preparation in the physical sciences
  • The second director, Professor David J H Cockayne
  • School visits and Schools Open Days
  • X-ray microanalysis and the Australian Microbeam Analysis Society
  • Thursday lunches
  • That hit a nerve
  • the structure and regeneration of nerve grafts
  • Organising microscopy conferences
  • Cryogenic specimen preparation
  • EMUser and the EMU Newsletter
  • Image analysis
  • Fracture of materials
  • learning from failure
  • The Australian EM Newsletter
  • International workshops
  • the EMU goes global
  • The NWG Macintosh Centre for Quaternary Dating
  • Advanced transmission electron microscopy
  • The duty microscopist system
  • Optical microscopy
  • The radial distribution function of amorphous materials
  • The creation of Imagelab
  • Scanning probe microscopy
  • Establishment of the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • The science of emulsion polymerisation
  • e-Research
  • the EMU in the digital domain
  • The Key Centre's postgraduate coursework degrees
  • Awards and honours to staff and students
  • Microscopes on the Move officially launched
  • The third director, Professor Simon Ringer
  • The deputy directors
  • The laboratory managers
  • Fluorescent proteins of reef corals
  • natural sunscreens and biotechnological tools
  • The Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation
  • X-ray microtomography at the EMU
  • The first PhD students enrol in the Key Centre
  • Putting the past under the microscope
  • Atom probe tomography
  • Involvement with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals
  • "In every atom slumbers the might of the self"
  • the science of atom probe tomography
  • Microscopy and sustainability
  • Establishment of the Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility
  • The golden jubilee of the Electron Microscope Unit
  • Epilogue: A vision of the future
  • Appendix 1: A timeline of major events in the history of the EMU
  • Appendix 2: EMU staff list (1958-2008)
  • Appendix 3: The EMU's 40th anniversary celebrations
  • Appendix 4: Newsletters produced by the EMU
  • About the authors

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