ELECTRON MICROSCOPE BOUGHT BY N.Z. GOVERNMENT
Auckland, April 10. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has bought an electron microscope in England and it is due to be delivered very soon said a young Auckland physicist employed by the department, Mr. K. I. Williamson, who has been in Melbourne for the past six weeks engaged in the study of this instrument. Already, he said, the electron microscope had contributed new knowledge in almost every branch of photographing of the influenza virus for the first time, and much valuable work on textile fibres and paints and pigments. Where the most powerful ordinary microscope was limited to about a 2000 magnification, the electron instrument resolved detail much more finely to obtain magnification of hundreds of thousands of diameters.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 April 1948, Page 4
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