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My Life as a Microscopist; Two Dual Beams and an Atom Probe

In kindergarten, on the cover of the "Weekly Reader," I encountered my first electron micrograph of a fly (Fig. 1). My brain, not yet fully conditioned to accept the current reality of the five senses, locked this picture into my imagination. With an English degree and a dead end job, I saw an ad for the Madison Area Technical College (MATC) Electron Microscopy program and remembered the fly on the cover of that "Weekly Reader." What if? What if the microanalytical world is a path to understanding how we create the world we live in? What if this understanding leads to technology beyond cell phones, microwaves and blowing things up?