microscopy
noun
the use of the microscope.
microscopist
-
a word derived from
microscopy.
Example Sentences
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The next year Tyrrell sent samples of B814 to June Almeida, a talented electron microscopist who did not have a university degree, at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
The 17th-century microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek claimed that each sperm cell contained within it a folded-up human being waiting patiently to unfurl.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
“It’s really a milestone, that’s for sure. There’s really nothing to break anymore. This was the last resolution barrier,” says biochemist and electron microscopist Holger Stark.
From Nature ● Jun. 3, 2020
Brill’s day job is as a microscopist at DuPont, but he is known within the Northeastern rice community as the “rice engineer”—an open-source, proto-John Deere for commercially neglected urban and smaller-scale rice farmers.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 10, 2014
Even the relatively uneducated Leeuwenhoek, the first great microscopist, who had no Latin, qualified as a surveyor.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
