Ukrainian scientists were the first to "photograph" the atom

    Atom photo

    Probably all publications will burst about it now, but I cannot be silent. Scientists from the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology presented the first atomic images in the history of science.

    To obtain images, scientists used an electron microscope that records radiation and fields (field-emission electron microscope, FEEM). Physicists sequentially placed dozens of carbon atoms in a vacuum chamber and passed through them an electric discharge of 425 volts. Radiation of the last atom in the chain onto a phosphorus screen made it possible to obtain an image of a cloud of electrons around the nucleus.

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    From myself: for the first time in a long time, such news is not American, Japanese, Chinese, but ours, native Ukrainian scientists. Just heroes. With our funding, research institutes do something first. All the more so. Just heroes ...

    updated:
    I want to remind you that in the same institute in 1932 the atomic nucleus was first split .

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