Early developments in the negative staining technique for electron microscopy

✍ Scribed by R.W. Horne

• Book ID: 103915895
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 557 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0739-6260
• DOI: 10.1016/0739-6260(91)90051-z

✦ Synopsis

It is approximately 34 years since the first high resolution images of T 2 bacteriophages were recorded in the electron microscope using a method which was to be known as 'negative staining'. Details of the historical background and the original experiments which led up to the negative staining method are described.