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Ernst Ruska, “The Development of the Electron Microscope and of Early Electron Microscopy”, Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986.

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Ernst Ruska, “The Development of the Electron Microscope and of Early Electron Microscopy”, Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986 was a transcript of the lecture by Nobel laureate Ernst Ruska.  In science fiction novels, two optical instruments that are essential are: telescopes   and microscopes.  The history of the person first with telescope or microscope is debatable.
In contrast, the  radio-telescope and the electron-microscope begun with known  individuals without debate.  Ernst Ruska was the person who began electron-microscopy and it is beyond dispute.  On 8 December 1986, Ernst Ruska was awarded a Nobel Prize for inventing the electron microscope.  
But, Physics Nobel laureate, Ernst Ruska received the award nearly 50 years after his microscope research began. That was the reason I wrote this blog post; Ernst Ruska was a student when he started and finally recognized.

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