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SUMMARY:A short history of the microscope - Professor Clemens Kaminski\, D
 epartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
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CONTACT:Alexei Lapkin
DESCRIPTION:The development of the optical microscope is intricately linke
 d to the history of modern science.  Instrument makers in the 17th century
  perfected the art of making high power lenses.  Simultaneously\, the wave
  theory of light propagation progressed at a rapid pace.  Anatomists and m
 edics made ground breaking discoveries on matters of life itself and their
  needs drove theoreticians and experimentalists to some of the greatest sc
 ientific discoveries.  It may come as a surprise that despite the continuo
 us progress in the field now for over 400 years\, there is no decline in t
 he pace at which the field is progressing. On the contrary\, several Nobel
  prizes were awarded over the last 10 years in the field of optical micros
 copy. Today we can see things much smaller than the wavelength of light an
 d we can do this inside living cells with molecular sensitivity and specif
 icity\, a concept unthinkable only 15 years ago or so. In this talk\, I wi
 ll take you through the history of the light microscope from the days of R
 obert Hooke to modern instruments\, and aim to give you an introduction to
  the principles behind state of the art techniques.  Finally\, I will show
  some examples of our own work from efforts to unravel molecular mechanism
 s of human diseases.
LOCATION:Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, West Cambr
 idge Site\, LT2
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