In 1949 an industrial donation of 100,000 Schilling was the financial basis of the first electron microscope at the former “Technische Hochschule”, today’s Graz University of Technology. Two years later a specialised research centre for electron microscopy, the “Forschungsstelle für Elektronenmikroskopie” was established. Fritz Grasenick (right) became the first head of the institute. The microscope “Übermikroskop UEM100” by Siemens & Halske in Berlin was delivered and installed in March 1951. The inauguration ceremony of the research centre took place three month later on June 30th 1951. A symposium was held; many international experts participated, to name some of them: Ernst Ruska (Nobel Prize winner), Bodo von Borries (physicist and co-inventor of the electron microscope), Walter Glaser (theoretical physicist) or Otto Wolf (Siemens & Halske, Berlin). You want to know more? Please have a look at our Performance Report!

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