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The inventor of the electron microscope, Ernst Ruska, combined an academic career in physics and electrical engineering with work in private industry at several of Germany's top electrical corporations. He was associated with the Siemens Company from 1937 to 1955, where he helped mass produce the electron microscope, the invention for which he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics....
