Kristóf Kovács gave an excellent presentation on 12 November in Siófok, at our highly anticipated and successful first autumn conference, and on Monday 15 November, on the Hungarian Higher Education Day, he was awarded the Trefort Ágoston Prize by Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics in Budapest for his outstanding teaching activities. “The Trefort Ágoston Prize is awarded to… Teljes cikk »
Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri (WIS), Lothar Houben (WIS), Tali Dadosh (WIS) and Natalie Elia (BGU)The scientific committee representatives of ISM are glad to inform you that the Microscopical Society of Canada, the Royal Microscopical Society (UK) and the Israel Society for Microscopy initiated with the support of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) an international networking platform for expanding knowledge,… Teljes cikk »
Hoping that the epidemic situation allows it and an in-person meeting will have a positive impact not only on the participants but also on every HSM member who decides to listen to the lectures on Youtube, a small conference was organized by Béla Pécz and Zoltán Kristóf at our usual conference venue, in the Siófok Panorama Hotel. László Barna was… Teljes cikk »
Dr. Árpád Barna, or “Árpi uncle” as he was called by many of us, in his 86th year, on the evening of September 24, 2021, died. We mourn the Candidate of Physical Science, the Doctor of Engineering, and first of all, our role model. Árpi and his colleagues started in-situ transmission electron microscopy in 1966, of which the hardware was… Teljes cikk »
A szuperrezolúciós (szuperfeloldású/felbontású) mikroszkópia megvalósítói, Stefan Hell, Eric Betzig és William E. Moerner számára odaítélt kémiai Nobel-díj 2014-ben, és az ultrakrió-elektronmikroszkópia kidolgozói, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank és Richard Henderson 2017-es Nobel-díja egyaránt arra utal, a molekuláris biológia és genetika mellett a mikroszkópia is virágkorát éli. Ezt mutatja a már több évtizedes múlttal rendelkező nagy mikroszkópos konferenciák mellett gombamódra szaporodó, mikroszkópos… Teljes cikk »
In an interview published on the website of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Béla Pécz, director of the Technical Physics and Materials Science Research Institute (and previous president of HSM) gives a very elegant and simple description of the reason for the spherical aberration and explains the significance of its correction.The article is also definitely worth a look at because… Teljes cikk »
The abstract book of the HSM virtual conference held on 13 May 2021 is available here.
Mihály Pósfai, the member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, even more importantly, our dear friend and old member of the HSM, has become the member of the Academia Europaea. The membership of this pan-European academic institution can only be achieved by invitation and means a high appreciation of the new member’s scientific achievements.The honor also radiates a bit for… Teljes cikk »
In the last few years, we could read several times about the situation of young researchers, which, despite the increasing number of grants and job opportunities open to them, is not enviable. To achieve an improved situation, besides the intention and work of senior executives, the efforts of young researchers are demanded, too. One of the main reasons for the… Teljes cikk »
We became one less. Dr. Erzsébet Mihalik, one of the first members of the Society and its board member for several cycles, retired associate professor of the Department of Plant Biology of SZTE, head of the former Department of Botany (1996-2007), and former director of the Botanical Garden of SZTE (1996-2013), has passed. She participated in our last conference held… Teljes cikk »
