Origin and background of the invention of the electron microscope: Commentary and expanded notes on memoir of reinhold Rüdenberg*

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

Volumn 160, Issue C, 2010, Pages 207-271

  Gunther Rudenberg, H ^a   Rudenberg, Paul G ^a  

^a Haiti ^*  (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

ELECTRIC POWER TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRON IMAGES; SIEMENS; STRAY MAGNETIC FIELDS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 77953578966     PISSN: 10765670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-5670(10)60006-7     Document Type: Chapter

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