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Erwin Wilhelm Mueller
Erwin Wilhelm Mueller
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Mueller was the first man to see an atom. and the various micrographs he obtained with these microscopes adorn virtually every elementary science school book, encyclopedias, and the world's great museums.
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In 1951, while at the Fritz Haber Instsitute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, he invented the field-ion microscope by supplying the absorbate continuously in the form of a neutral ambient gas, which in turn could be continuously desorbed in the form of ions to produce a projection image. However, it took him four more years before he could finally achieve atomic resolution by cryogenic cooling of the specimen.
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He became the Scientific Member-atLarge of the Max-Planck Institute, Berlin, in 1957; was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1961; as a Member of Academy Deutscher Naturforscher, Leopoldina, in 1968; as Honorary Fellow, Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, in 1969; and as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences in 1975. He served the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Membership, General Engineering Peer Group.
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