Predicting self-assembly in natural materials

Nature’s toolkit includes its still-matchless ability to effortlessly assemble proteins, membranes, and other complex structures from parts lists of atoms, molecules and particles of various sizes and shapes.

2016 Pittcon Heritage Award presented to JEOL founders

The 2016 Pittcon Heritage Award, jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), has been presented to Kenji Kazato (1917-2012) and Kazuo Ito (1921- ), who led a group of scientists in Japan to develop an electron microscope.