Beyond Light : The Industrial Beginnings and Early Evolution of Electron Microscopy in Germany - Falk MÃ¼ller

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Beyond Light

The Industrial Beginnings and Early Evolution of Electron Microscopy in Germany

By: Falk MÃ¼ller

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Hardcover | 1 May 2025

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466 Pages

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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.

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“In the history of scientific instruments, Beyond Light makes a major archival and interpretive contribution to understanding how electron microscopy took shape in Germany. … The book modifies existing scholarship by placing greater explanatory weight on the institutional infrastructures of industrial research than on university invention alone ... . For researchers concerned with the history of precision instruments, industrial R&D management, and the politics of technology, this monograph stands as an indispensable and seminal text.” (Kaixuan Mu, Technology and Culture, Vol. 67 (3), July, 2026)

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