Albert Crewe

Albert Victor Crewe
Born(1927-02-18)February 18, 1927
DiedNovember 18, 2009(2009-11-18) (aged 82)
Chesterton, Indiana, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Known forScanning transmission electron microscopy
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory

Albert Victor Crewe (February 18, 1927 – November 18, 2009) was a British-born American physicist and inventor of the modern scanning transmission electron microscope capable of taking still and motion pictures of atoms, a technology that provided new insights into atomic interaction and enabled significant advances in and had wide-reaching implications for the biomedical, semiconductor, and computing industries.