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McMullan, D. (2008). The Early Development of the Scanning Electron Microscope. In: Schatten, H., Pawley, J.B. (eds) Biological Low-Voltage Scanning Electron Microscopy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72972-5_1

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