Albert Crewe
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Albert V. Crewe (b. February 18, 1927) is a British born American physicist. He is the son of Audrey and Albert Crewe.
Crewe was born as an only child in a fairly wealthy house in Liverpool. At age 5, he attended a private boys school and graduated with top honors.
Crewe attended the University of Liverpool and graduated with a degree in engineering, gaining his PhD in 1950. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois to aid a friend in the construction of the cyclotronic particle accelerator.
Crewe became the director of the Particle Accelerator Division at Argonne National Laboratories, and in 1961 he succeeded Norman Hilberry as Argonne Director, despite still being a citizen of the United Kingdom, although he became a US citizen shortly afterwards [1]. While at Argonne, Crewe directed the designed and construction of the Zero Gradient Synchrotron.
He retired as director in 1967, becoming a professor at the University of Chicago, and later a dean of the physical sciences division.
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Crewe developed the first modern scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), demonstrating the ability to image individual atoms, and produced several magnetic lenses for electron microscopes.
He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1972
He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago[1].
