From the Editor
Editorial Staff
MT-10 Awards Charles E. Lyman
Editor-in-Chief
charles.lyman@
lehigh.edu
(610) 758-4249
In the July issue of this magazine, I promised to provide details about the MT-10
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Awards. Th ese new awards, to be sponsored by Microscopy Today, will recognize the best
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new products and methods across the entire fi eld of microscopy. Since our fi eld is broad, (212) 780-0315
it seems appropriate to have ten awards per year—fi ve primarily related to the life sciences
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and fi ve related to the physical sciences. In each of these areas, there may be interesting
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new developments in light microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy,
Phil Oshel, Technical Editor
ion microscopy, acoustic microscopy, microanalysis, specimen preparation, etc. Th ese
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awards will honor the best developments in microscopy from the previous calendar year.
Stephen Carmichael, Columnist
Th e procedure for nominating a particular device or method for an MT-10 Award is
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as follows. A letter of intent to nominate must be sent by December 15 to the Microscopy Michael Davidson, Pioneers Editor
Today Editor-in-Chief via the “MT-10 Award Nomination” box at the magazine website:
davidson@magnet.fsu.edu
www.microscopy-today.com. Nominators must then submit full nomination applications Steven Barlow, Education Editor
to the same website by March 1. Nominations can come from employers, colleagues,
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or self-nominations. Nominations will only be accepted for the following: commercial Thomas E. Phillips, Consulting Editor
microscopy-related products that were fi rst marketed in the previous year or new
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microscopy methods and inventions that were published in peer-reviewed journals E. Ann Ellis, Microscopy 101 Editor
in the previous year. Th e nomination form requires information about the inventor or
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author, the product or method name, the date of commercial product release or date
John Shields, Humor Editor
of publication, what the product or method does, how the product or method works,
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what theories are involved, why the product or method is an advance over previous
technologies, a description of the signifi cance of the development for science and
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and usefulness to the microscopy community. Th ree-time R&D 100 Award-winner
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Tom Kelly will lead a panel of judges, representing various sub-fi elds of microscopy and
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microanalysis, to select the winners. Winners will be notifi ed by May 15 and honored at
the summer Microscopy & Microanalysis 2010 meeting to be held in Portland, Oregon.
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Descriptions of the winning products and methods will be published in the print and
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digital editions of the September 2010 issue of Microscopy Today.
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microscopy, ion-beam techniques, and the wide range of microanalytical methods. Readers
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and authors come from both the life sciences and the physical sciences. The typical length of
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