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3 unusual facts about Nestor J. Zaluzec


Nestor J. Zaluzec

He developed Lorentz STEM imaging, High Angular Resolution Electron Channeling X-ray Spectroscopy (HARECXS), High Angular Resolution Electron Channeling Electron Spectroscopy (HARECES), Position Resolved Diffraction, as well as his invention of the scanning confocal electron microscope and the π steradian Transmission X-ray Detector, for which he was given the R&D 100 Awards in 2003 and 2010 respectively.

A Fellow of both Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as well as the Computational Institute of the University of Chicago, Zaluzec, has and continues to hold the tripartite role of Senior Scientist, Educator and Inventor at ANL.

Scanning confocal electron microscopy

However, practical design and construction of scanning confocal electron microscope is a complex problem first solved by Nestor J. Zaluzec.



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