Re: A microscopy documentary

Posted by Badri Roysam on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Re-Importance-of-the-tube-lens-NA-tp2436781p2451734.html

I agree - this is a definite need. There ought to be a show on Nova or such
other program on microscopy. I am happy to contribute to such an effort!


Badri Roysam
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Oreopoulos [mailto:[hidden email]]
To: [hidden email]
Subject: A microscopy documentary


> I'm a big fan of the documentary movie genre and the other day, while  
> re-watching a couple episodes of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series, I  
> thought to myself, "Why has no one put together a documentary about  
> the history of microscopy?" Is anyone out there aware of such a  
> thing? If not, would there be interest in the community to try and  
> put something together by making use of the many open source tools on  
> the web like youtube, etc. to do such a thing? I myself have never  
> been a part of any home-made movie effort, but I would be willing to  
> work with people to get a pet project like this going.
>
> There is a BBC documentary called Light Fantastic by Simon Schaffer  
> which documents the history of optics and its impact on the world,  
> and this is very much in the spirit of the kind of thing I had in  
> mind, but it would be nice to see something exclusive for microscopy,  
> perhaps talking about the stories of the scientists behind important  
> developments in microscopy as well.
>
>
> John Oreopoulos, BSc,
> PhD Candidate
> University of Toronto
> Institute For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
> Centre For Studies in Molecular Imaging
>
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