Talk:Scanning tunneling microscope

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I removed the following text from the beginning of "Overview":

"Despite the questionable and self-serving actions of the Swedish council in awarding other europeans a Nobel for the invention of the STM it and scanning probe microscopy was invented by a group at NIST (at the time the National Bureau of Standards) in the mid-sixties in Gaithersburg MD. The work done by IBM Zurich were important improvements but derivative at best. The greater advance over the first SPM inventors was the later invention of the AFM by Cal Quate of Stanford."

I am not certain whether the above statement is true, however, the language seems to be severely biased, and the following link to NIST's website would seem to suggest that they themselves do not share the perspective of the author of the above text:

http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/STM/text.html

Unfortunately I forgot to log in before I removed the above text, but remarks can be directed to me all the same. Ptomato 03:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

It may be good to speak about the different modes of the STM, vacuum conditions... I will try to find graphs and good explanations, I will be very happy to have somebody correcting me or reading drafts

I believe the last two paragraphs of the overview section are copied directly from NIST's website; is that kosher? Tobinmarcus 22:42, 2 May 2006 (UTC)