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ReviewPhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2010

Micrographia of the twenty-first century: from camera obscura to 4D microscopy.

Ahmed H Zewail

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Review in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reflections on the value of electron microscopy in the study of heterogeneous catalysts.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2017
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  3. The Arabs' scientific vision.Nature materials · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ahmed H ZewailPhysical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. zewail@caltech.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, the evolutionary and revolutionary developments of microscopic imaging are overviewed with a perspective on origins. From Alhazen's camera obscura, to Hooke and van Leeuwenhoek's two-dimensional optical micrography, and on to three- and four-dimensional (4D) electron microscopy, these developments over a millennium have transformed humans' scope of visualization. The changes in the length and time scales involved are unimaginable, beginning with the visible shadows of candles at the centimetre and second scales, and ending with invisible atoms with space and time dimensions of sub-nanometre and femtosecond. With these advances it has become possible to determine the structures of matter and to observe their elementary dynamics as they unfold in real time. Such observations provide the means for visualizing materials behaviour and biological function, with the aim of understanding emergent phenomena in complex systems.

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CellsHistory, 15th CenturyHistory, 17th CenturyHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHistory, MedievalLightMicroscopyMicroscopy, ElectronMolecular Imaging

Identifiers

PMID20123754
PMCPMC3263811

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