The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

Park Gyu-yeol of Chungbuk Science High School wins Prime Minister's Award Park Gyu-yeol, winner of the Prime Minister's Award, explains his invention, the 'Double Reflection Microscope Using a Beam ...

STM/AFM: A BROADENING ARRAY OF APPLICATIONS The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) was developed by physicists Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in 1982 to investigate the surfaces of solids, such as ...