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

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1914, 2010, Pages 1191-1204

  Zewail, Ahmed H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrons; Light; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CAMERA OBSCURA; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; EMERGENT PHENOMENON; FEMTOSECONDS; LIGHT MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; NANOMETRES; OPTICAL MICROGRAPHY; REAL TIME; SPACE AND TIME; TIME-SCALES;

CAMERAS;

CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTORY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; REVIEW;

CELLS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR IMAGING;

EID: 77449125657     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0265     Document Type: Review

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