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Everything about Microscope
Scientific instrument for observing small objects
A microscope is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic means being invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicroscopeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope for versatile multi-scale imaging of cleared tissuesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Advances in imaging and electron physicsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Atomic Force MicroscopeCited 13,309 times
- Go sideways: MicroscopyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Optical microscopeA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
Noun Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
Verb To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Atomic Force Microscope
Automated electron microscope tomography using robust prediction of specimen movements
Theory of the scanning tunneling microscope
Calibration of atomic-force microscope tips
Force measurements with the atomic force microscope: Technique, interpretation and applications
Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope
Theory and Application for the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Frequency modulation detection using high- Q cantilevers for enhanced force microscope sensitivity
🆕 Influential since 2022
A hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope for versatile multi-scale imaging of cleared tissues
The quantum twisting microscope
Miniscope-LFOV: A large-field-of-view, single-cell-resolution, miniature microscope for wired and wire-free imaging of neural dynamics in freely behaving animals
Tracking single adatoms in liquid in a transmission electron microscope
A three-photon head-mounted microscope for imaging all layers of visual cortex in freely moving mice
📚 Books worth reading
Advances in imaging and electron physicsPeter W. Hawkes, Benjamin Kazan · 1995
The microscopeGage, Simon Henry · 1899
Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and Forms of Animal LifePhilip Henry Gosse · 1859
Greg's MicroscopeMillicent E. Selsam · 1963
Half-hours with the microscopeEdwin Lankester · 1800
Common objects of the microscopeJohn George Wood · 1861
The microscope and its revelationsWilliam Benjamin Carpenter · 1856
Lehrbuch der Histologie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des MenschenPhilipp Stöhr · 1888
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