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The Scanning Electron Microscope

A site for children explaining how the scanning electron microscope works, and showing some images of objects.

http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/intro.html

Anatomy of the microscope

Everything you ever wanted to know about microscopes and their various components.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/anatomy/anatomy.html

Autobiography of Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska (1906 - 1988) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/ruska-autobio.html

What DNA Actually Looks Like

An electron microscope has successfully imaged a single strand of DNA.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/what-dna-actually-looks-like/265713/

How the SEM works

Describes how a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) works, has a library of images and demonstrations for teachers to use.

http://www.mos.org/sln/SEM/

Leo Szilard

Leo Szilard (1898 - 1964) ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral ...

http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html

Covers the law of refraction including interactive Java tutorials. Links to ideas of fluorescence, diffraction, polarization, reflection, scattering, and Virtual microscopy (Virtual scanning electron ...

$Visit Refraction of Light$

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/lightandcolor/refraction.html

Electron Affinity

The ionization energy or ionization potential is the energy necessary to remove an electron from the neutral atom. It is a minimum for the alkali metals which have a single electron outside a closed ...