50 Years of Research and Development In October, 1948 Professor Sir Charles Oatley, together with his research student Dennis McMullan, began the research and development that was to lead to the launch of the world's first series production scanning electron microscope in 1965. Through generations of research students the work has continued to the present day. We present in these pages some details of this historic development. (Picture: Mark I Stereoscan.)

Contents A Brief History of the Origins and Development of the Scanning Electron Microscope in the Cambridge University Engineering Department. by BC Breton Charles Oatley: Pioneer of Scanning Electron Microscopy. A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Electron Microscope Group of the Institute of Physics: EMAG '97 (For full details see Conference Proceedings). by KCA Smith Scanning Electron Microscopy 1928-1965 Full version of a presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Microscopy Society of America, Cincinnati, August 1993 by Dennis McMullan Bibliography of Scanning Electron Microscopy

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Bernie Breton, mailto:bcb@eng.cam.ac.uk