EPMA History - Some documents and oral history links

Updated: September 9, 2003

Early history of the Microbeam Analysis Society (and EPMA in US) by David Wittry

James Hillier, an early EPMA developer

Oral history with J. Hillier, 1975 (IEEE)

Hillier and the first electron microscope built in North America

Very early history of electron microscopy at the University of Toronto

Hillier's first microanalyzer, 1945 patent

Hillier's second microanalyzer, 1947 patent

Very first paper in English by Castaing and Guinier on EPMA
given in 1952 in New Jersey, published in 1953
--lost until now?

Pdf (Adobe 5) of Castaing and Guinier, 1953

Henry Moseley (1887-1915)

About Moseley and a copy of his 1913 paper "The high frequency spectra of the elements"

First qualitative X-ray chemical analysis, of brass

Moseley died in a WWI battle in Turkey in 1915. "In view of what he might still have accomplished (he was only 27 when he died), his death might well have been the most costly single death of the war to mankind generally," says Isaac Asimov (Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology).

Extensive source of original papers in chemistry and physics, from "the ChemTeam"

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