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Albert Victor Crewe | |
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| Born | February 18, 1927 |
| Died | November 18, 2009 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory |
Albert Victor Crewe (February 18, 1927 – November 18, 2009) was a British-born American physicist and inventor of the modern scanning transmission electron microscope[1] capable of taking still and motion pictures of atoms, a technology that provided new insights into atomic interaction and enabled significant advances in and had wide-reaching implications for the biomedical, semiconductor, and computing industries.