Microscopy & Microtechnology by Heather Hobbs
RMS Alan Agar Medal for Electron Microscopy, awarded for outstanding scientifi c achievements applying electron microscopy in the fi eld of physical or life sciences - Dr Angus Kirkland, University of Oxford
His innovative work on detector characterisation showed that the power spectrum of an evenly illuminated white-noise image is in general not equal to the modulation transfer function (MTF) and that the conventional techniques to measure the MTF give over-optimistic estimations of the MTF. Dr Kirkland has shown that he is able to fully appreciate, identify, contribute and disseminate entirely new developments across the broad fi eld of electron microscopy to both the European and international community.
RMS Medal for Light Microscopy, awarded for outstanding scientifi c achievements applying or developing new forms of light microscopy - Dr Jan Huisken, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Dr Angus Kirkland, photo credit: University of Oxford
Dr Kirkland is known for being an electron microscopist with an incredibly wide-ranging understanding and knowledge of the fi eld. Some of his most high-profi le research has been in exit-wave reconstruction. His arguably most notable work is the development of super- resolved exit-wave reconstruction methods through which, using an aberration-corrected instrument, he demonstrated a remarkable improvement in resolution to 78 picometres at 200 kV, more than 40% better than the axial limit. As published in Science, Dr Kirkland characterised of individual 2 x 2 and 3 x 3 atom nanocrystals encapsulated in a single walled carbon nanotube solved using exit-wave reconstruction to locate single I and K atoms.
Dr Kirkland was the fi rst to clearly develop a comprehensive understanding of signal and noise transfer and the effects of this on the performance of electron image detectors.
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Royal Microscopical Society Medal Series - Winners Announced
A series of Medals launched by the Royal Microscopical Society in 2014 to coincide with its 175th anniversary, are designed to recognise and celebrate individuals who make outstanding contributions to the fi eld of microscopy across both the life and physical sciences.
After a diffi cult decision-making process, the RMS is proud to announce the winners for 2017, spanning all microscopy techniques and applications.
then, SPIM has replaced confocal and two- photon microscopy in many applications, and revolutionised in vivo whole embryo imaging.
Dr Huisken has pioneered sample preparation for long time lapse experiments and has expanded SPIM in a number of directions for a number of different applications, including a high-speed instrument for cardiac imaging. He has also exploited the bright-fi eld contrast of unstained specimens to obtain in vivo tomographic reconstructions of the 3D anatomy of zebrafi sh. Unlike most microscopy laboratories, each microscope that Dr Huisken builds is specifi cally designed to address a particular biological question that requires cutting-edge observations not possible on a commercial microscope.
RMS Medal for Innovation in Applied Microscopy for Engineering and Physical Sciences, awarded for outstanding scientifi c achievements in applying microscopy in the fi elds of engineering and physical sciences - Dr Sarah Haigh, University of Manchester
Dr Jan Huisken, photo credit: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and genetics
Dr Huisken is an accomplished biophysical scientist who has contributed novel imaging tools that have enabled new and powerful observations of developmental and physiological processes.
Along with his co-workers, Dr Huisken introduced light sheet microscopy (or selective plane illumination microscopy) to the fi eld of biological imaging in 2004. Since
Dr Haigh has made ground-breaking contributions to the development of techniques for the study of two-dimensional materials and nanomaterials by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Dr Haigh performed the fi rst atomic-scale cross-sectional imaging of 2D heterostructures, demonstrating that interfaces could be made atomically sharp. This insight helped improve the electronic mobility in graphene sheets and provided motivation for producing more complex stacks, establishing the rapidly growing fi eld of van der Waals heterostructure devices. More recently, this approach has been applied to the imaging of microfl uidic channels.
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