Professor Daniel Shechtman has been confirmed as a Plenary Speaker
at the 15
th European Microscopy
Congress (emc2012) in Manchester in September 2012.
Professor
Shechtman was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery
of "quasicrystals" which showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in
an unrepeatable pattern. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that the
discovery in 1982 was initially "extremely controversial," but that it had
"fundamentally changed the way chemists look at solid matter".
On hearing of
the award, Professor Shechtman was quick to acknowledge the contribution that
microscopy had made to his work. He said, "The quasicrystals would have been
discovered in the future. But, without the electron microscope it is virtually
impossible, because the quasicrystals are so very small."
Dr Debbie
Stokes, the
emc2012 Conference Chair, said, "Amid the excitement of the Nobel Prize
announcement, Professor Shechtman still found time to accept our invitation. He
is going to have an exceptionally busy year, so we are delighted and honoured
that he has chosen to speak at our event and highlight the importance of
microscopy at the frontiers of scientific research"
Professor Shechtman becomes
the seventh confirmed
Plenary
Speaker alongside Dr Christian Colliex, Professor Peter Dobson, Professor
Andreas Engel, Professor Scott Fraser, Professor Jeff Lichtman, and Professor
Tony Wilson.
Dr John Hutchison, a Vice
Chair of the Conference, said, "Dan is a superb example of a scientist whose
findings were initially disputed and scorned as being simply bad science. His
discovery of quasicrystals completely upset conventional crystallography with
its permitted symmetries. Dan persisted and was finally vindicated; his work
led to a renewed interest in electron microscopic studies of alloys, many of
which have now been shown to contain these intriguing structures."
The 15
th European
Microscopy Congress is being held at Manchester Central Convention Complex, UK
on 16
th - 21
st September 2012. Full details are available
at
www.emc2012.org
The European Microscopy Congress is held every four years in
cooperation with the European Microscopy Society, under the auspices of the
International Federation of Societies for Microscopy.
The 2012 event is being held in the UK for the first time since
1992, and is being organised by the Royal Microscopical Society -
www.rms.org.uk
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