[3dem] History of 3DEM and genealogy page (1968 - 2011)

[Mark Yeager]

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Subject: 	Re: [3dem] History of 3DEM and genealogy page (1968 - 2011)
Date: 	Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:05:17 -0400
From: 	Mark Yeager <my3r at virginia.edu>
To: 	3dem at ncmir.ucsd.edu




Dear Martin, Alexis, John, Ardan and Sriram

Thanks very much for all your effort. Yes, the field is more exciting 
than ever!

I thought that folks might be amused to see the attached picture of 
Nigel, who has always had an affinity for ice and snow.

Perhaps this was already pointed out, but I noticed that Ernst Ruska 
wasn't identified in your map as having received a Nobel Prize, which he 
was awarded at the age of 80. In fact, his Ph.D. thesis in 1933, 
provided the conception for magnetic lenses.

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/perspectives.html

Ruska's brother Helmut, a physician, 'managed to convince his former 
medical professor, Richard Siebeck, director of the medical clinic at 
the Charité Hospital in Berlin, that his brother's invention was worth 
investing time and effort into. In an advisory opinion to the industry, 
dated October 2 1936, and three years after the completion of the 
prototype electron microscope, Siebeck described how Ruska's electron 
microscope could be of immense value to him, as it could /advance 
research into the causes of disease, particularly infectious agents that 
couldn't be seen with a light microscope, such as those that cause 
smallpox, chickenpox, measles, mumps and influenza/. "Success seems to 
me so close, that I am ready and willing to advise on medical research 
work and to collaborate by making available the resources of my 
institute," wrote Siebeck.'

So it seems that relevance to medical research was the driving force for 
Siemens to commercialize the electron microscope.  It has now come full 
circle with pharmas establishing cryoEM labs to pursue drug discovery.


For some reason I keep seeing the outline of a ribosome in your map. : )

All best wishes

Mark



On 6/7/18 1:47 PM, Ardan Patwardhan wrote:
> Dear all
>
>
> We are very pleased to present the History of 3DEM webpage 
> (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/genealogy.html) featuring a dynamic 
> genealogy of the development of the field from 1968-2011. We realize 
> that there are omissions and corrections which need to be made to the 
> genealogy map. Please submit your comments to us and we will endeavor 
> to make the corrections in a timely fashion.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin Kessel (martink1937 at gmail.com <mailto:martink1937 at gmail.com>)
> Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the National Cancer Institute, NIH
>
> Alexis Rohou (a.rohou at gmail.com <mailto:a.rohou at gmail.com>)
> Genentech
>
> John Henry J. Scott (johnhenry.scott at nist.gov 
> <mailto:johnhenry.scott at nist.gov>)
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
>
> Ardan Patwardhan (ardan at ebi.ac.uk <mailto:ardan at ebi.ac.uk>)
> EMBL-EBI
>
> Sriram Somasundharam (sriram at ebi.ac.uk <mailto:sriram at ebi.ac.uk>)
> EMBL-EBI
>
>
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