Albert Crewe
Albert Victor Crewe | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 18, 1927 |
| Died | November 18, 2009 (aged 82) Chesterton, Indiana, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
| Known for | Scanning transmission electron microscopy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University 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.