Beyond Light
The Industrial Beginnings and Early Evolution of Electron Microscopy in Germany
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Beschreibung
As a powerful research technology, electron microscopy has shaped various natural and technical sciences. With its help, previously invisible pathogens such as viruses or bacteriophages became visible. After first successes in medical and biological research, it became a crucial research tool in the materials sciences, in chemistry, and solid state physics. The book focuses on the emergence and genesis of electron microscopy in Germany – from its beginnings in the early 1930s to the 1960s. Large corporations such as Siemens and AEG vied for supremacy in the development and sale of this innovative technology. In its early development, the success story of the electron microscope was characterized by strategic calculations, propaganda work, and tough patent negotiations, by conflicts among the protagonists over an appropriate place in future memory and by the entanglements with officials and organizations of the National Socialist State. The scientific and technical contributions of the electrical engineer and 1986 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Ernst Ruska, serve as a biographical thread.
As a powerful research technology, electron microscopy has shaped various natural and technical sciences. With its help, previously invisible pathogens such as viruses or bacteriophages became visible. After first successes in medical and biological research, it became a crucial research tool in the materials sciences, in chemistry, and solid state physics. The book focuses on the emergence and genesis of electron microscopy in Germany – from its beginnings in the early 1930s to the 1960s. Large corporations such as Siemens and AEG vied for supremacy in the development and sale of this innovative technology. In its early development, the success story of the electron microscope was characterized by strategic calculations, propaganda work, and tough patent negotiations, by conflicts among the protagonists over an appropriate place in future memory and by the entanglements with officials and organizations of the National Socialist State. The scientific and technical contributions of the electrical engineer and 1986 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Ernst Ruska, serve as a biographical thread.
Discusses scientific, technological, economic, and political conditions for the emergence of a new research technology Explores network building and de/escalation strategies of competing actors in patent and priority conflicts Provides an in-depth history of the development of the electron microscope
Autor*in
Falk Müller
Themen in »Beyond Light«
German Industry in World War II History of Electron Microscopy Microscopy Pioneers Science and Technology in National Socialist Germany Early Development of Electronics History of Virology Legal and Priority Conflicts in Science and Technology Propagandistic Value of Scientific and Technical Achievements History of Industrial Science Collaboration and Competition Between Science and Technology