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Under a Microscope, Seeing Is Truly Believing |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE |
| Author: Jen Waters |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 919 Words, 6,054 Characters |
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Scott Whittaker magnifies unseen worlds. Small details become a big deal when they are seen through a scanning electron microscope.
Whittaker, the scanning electron microscopy lab manager at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, brings items into focus, aiding the many researchers who need increased visualization for their work.
"We are a visual species," Whittaker says. "Inevitably, one of the first questions we will ask is what something looks like."
The field of microscopy has come a long way since seventeenth-century pioneers such as Anton van Leeuwenhoek and Rober...
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...entually, Scott says, he hopes the scanning electron microscope also will have that capability.
"When you give people the ability to see objects, the research and development increase rapidly," Scott says. "Look at how long it took biology to grow until the invention of the optical microscope. Then, there was an explosion in the field of biology."
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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