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Even more ridiculous is BIOL S-173: Laboratory in Transmission Electron Microscopy and Immunocytochemistry. To make things clearer to the lay transmission electron microscopist, the course description says "special attention will be placed on ultrastructural immunocytochemistry." Luckily, no auditors will be permitted...
...type of charged-particle beam, the electron beam, can operate in the atmosphere, though currently only over very short ranges. Livermore Laboratory has been working on and off since 1958 to develop an electron beam for terminal-phase interception. The current idea is to station a sort of gun on the ground near a group of missile silos or a city and fire electron beams at incoming "physics packages" (a remarkably polite euphemism for atomic warheads) as they re-enter the atmosphere. The beams, however, are hard to aim and control. Not to mention the price tag: Researcher Bill Barletta...
...work that led to a Nobel Prize in 1965 had begun some years earlier while he was watching someone toss a plate. He noticed that the spin of the dish seemed much faster than the rate of its wobble. The observation led to some playful calculations, idle musings about electron orbits and, finally, basic theories of quantum electrodynamics...
Wald said that once during a conversation with Albert Einstein, the great physicist suddenly piped, "Why do you think all the natural amino acids are lefthanded.... You know, I always wondered why the electron came out negative; it must have won the fight...
Using the electron microscope. Alice Tryon was the first scientist to discern the details of the size, shape and function of these spores. The spores, she explain, can take any number of forms, but the size and shape is crucial for survial, as some may need to travel great distances and others may need to hold water...