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developed a new electron spectrometer. In 1989, he became Group Leader within the Physical Instrumentation Program at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. Although working in a biological environment, he convinced the laboratory to accept a project to develop a Cs-corrected TEM for high-resolution EM in cooperation with Rose, and for later applications with Knut Urban. Additional contributions include development of the first sextupole cor- rector, based on Rose’s design, and implementation of the first aberration-corrected conventional transmission electron microscope. In 1996 he founded, together with Joachim Zach,
Corrected Electron Optical Systems GmbH in Heidelberg, for which he acted as managing director until 2015. In 2008, he was appointed as Honorary Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and together with Rose and Urban, he has received several honors and awards including the 2011 Israeli Wolf Research Prize for Physics and the 2013 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. In 2020, he received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Ondrej Krivanek, Knut Urban, and Harald Rose. Knut Urban studied at the University of Stuttgart, where
he obtained his PhD in Physics in 1972. He then moved to the Max Planck Institute of Metals Research in Stuttgart, where he was appointed head of the high-voltage electron microscopy group. He spent extended research stays at CEA Saclay/Paris, BARC Mumbai, and Tohoku University, Sendai. In 1984, he was appointed Professor at the University of Erlangen and, in 1987, the Chair of Experimental Physics at RWTH Aachen University, and the Director of the Institute of Solid State Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. In 2004, he became a co-founder of the Ernst Ruska-Center for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons. He has worked in many fields of experimental physics, including atomic defects in metals and alloys, the plasticity of quasicrystals, and the function of oxides. Urban has received numerous national and international awards, including the 2006 MRS Von Hippel Award, the 2008 Honda Prize for Ecotechnology, the 2011 Israeli Wolf Research Prize for Physics, and the 2020 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. Urban was President of the German Physical Society from 2004 to 2006 and is highly recognized for his role in implementing the first aberration-corrected conventional transmission electron microscope.
Burton Medal Te Burton Medal honors annually the distinguished
contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis by a scientist who is less than 40 years of age on January 1st of the award year (that is, the awardee to be honored at M&M 2021 cannot have been born earlier than 1981).
Burton Medal – Biological Sciences: Reto Fiolka Reto Fiolka obtained his PhD at the Institute of Nano-
technology at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland in 2009. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus where he worked on 3D-structured illumination microscopy and adaptive optics. In his current position at the University of Texas
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Huolin Xin, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astron- omy, University of California, Irvine.
Reto Fiolka, Assistant Professor,
Department of Cell Biology, Univer- sity of Texas Southwestern.
Southwestern, Reto has devel- oped novel techniques in light-sheet microscopy
and
has provided several major breakthroughs in micros- copy. With Field Synthesis, Reto presented a unified framework for the generation of advanced light,
including
optical lattices. Tis work allows the creation of simpler microscope systems that can be more readily disseminated to the broader community. Reto has also addressed the challenges of cleared tissue imaging by creating a high- resolution,
refractive index- independent l ight- she e t
microscope that can image centimeter-sized tissue sections with isotropic, 300nm resolution. Reto and his collaborators have also developed a quantitative method to analyze cellular shapes and to extract information about cellular morphology connected to signaling in health and disease. More recently, Reto’s laboratory discovered a novel form of projection imag- ing, which is leveraged to view microscopic samples from different angles in real time. Tis invention improves sample exploration, as 3D specimens can be viewed from different angles at a video rate. Reto’s research has extended the imaging capabilities of
optical microscopy such that cancer cell research and drug screening can be performed in physiologically relevant, 3D ex vivo and in vivo environments. Te imaging tools developed by Reto are being used in collaborative research at UT Southwestern and across the United States.
Burton Medal – Physical Sciences: Huolin Xin Huolin Xin graduated
from the Physics Department of Cornell University in 2011 and joined the University of California, Irvine in 2018. As an early-career investiga- tor, Huolin is a leading expert in the field of transmission electron microscopy, and he has many world-class contri- butions to the development of in situ three-dimensional analytical imaging, quan- titative spectroscopy at the atomic scale, and artificially intelligent TEM. Using these tools, Huolin many
has resolved important materials, physics, and chemistry prob-
lems resulting in energy technology advancements. In par- ticular, Huolin is exceptionally productive and has a stunning
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