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James Hillier, Canadian-American computer scientist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (born 1915)
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James Hillier
Canadian-American scientist and inventor (1915–2007)
James Hillier, was a Canadian-American scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Electron microscope
Type of microscope with electrons as a source of illumination
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. It uses electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to control the electron beam, for instance focusing it to produce magnified images or…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)