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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2010

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My apologies to you all; the note on page 38 is a spoof. My co-authors are a fictitious member of the electron microscopy group at Bristol University in the 1980s and a fictitious student we invented at my secondary school, half a century ago. In the case of the latter, we were able to persuade the teachers and administration that he was real for an entire term.

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My apologies to you all; the note on page 38 is a spoof. My co-authors are a fictitious member of the electron microscopy group at Bristol University in the 1980s and a fictitious student we invented at my secondary school, half a century ago. In the case of the latter, we were able to persuade the teachers and administration that he was real for an entire term.

The whole point of the note was so that I can here claim that what we have done is to re-invent the WHEEL—Wavelength High-Energy Electron Localization. To make up for this fraud, Microscopy Today will be pleased to offer a prize for the best explanation, received prior to 1 May, 2010, of why WHEEL cannot work. The prize is a free registration to either M&M 2010 in Portland or M&M 2011 in Nashville.

WHEEL turns out to be very closely related to a method proposed many years earlier [Reference Gandolfi and Reiffel1]. We are pleased that this allows us to add to the many tributes to the author of that earlier spoof [Reference Zeitler2].

References

[1]Gandolfi, L and Reiffel, J, “Enhancement of contrast in the CEM and STEM using bumpy specimens and employing the ‘Dapled Field’ mode of operation,” Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Meeting: Electron Microscopy Society of America (1974) 552553.Google Scholar
[2]Zeitler, E, “In memory of Judith Reiffel,” Ultramicroscopy 100 (2004) vii–ix.CrossRefGoogle Scholar