MEMOIR ON INVENTING THE CONFOCAL SCANNING MICROSCOPE
MEMOIR ON INVENTING THE CONFOCAL SCANNING MICROSCOPE
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DOI：
10.1002/sca.4950100403
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发表时间：
1988-07-01
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MINSKY, M
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MINSKY, M
在本期中，我们刊登了一篇文章，邀请马文·明斯基教授撰写有关他发明的共焦扫描显微镜的文章。这不是一个承认科学见解或发现的优先性的问题。这更是一个提出这样一个问题的问题，即这样一个极其重要的思想怎么可能在如此长的一段时间内没有得到承认。这可能是这样的情况下，经过更多的研究，我们发现另一个人发现了同样的想法。那不重要事实是，明斯基发明了这样一个显微镜相同的概念，后来广泛发展的Egger和Davidovits在耶鲁大学和谢泼德和威尔逊在牛津大学和Brakenhoff和同事在阿姆斯特丹等情况也是显着的，明斯基只公布了他的发明作为专利。然而，他不仅建立了一个显微镜，并使其工作，这是那种原型，我们会感到自豪，但他显示了它的一些人谁离开留下深刻印象，但仍然没有采用的概念。
In this issue, we carry an article which we invited Prof. Marvin Minsky to write about his invention of the confocal scanning microscope. This is not a question of recognizing priority for a scientific insight or discovery. It is much more a question of raising the problem of how it can be possible that such an immensely important idea can go unrecognized for such a very long period. It may possibly be the case that after more research we find that yet another person discovered the same idea. That does not matter. The fact is that Minsky invented such a microscope identical with the concept later developed extensively by Egger and Davidovits at Yale and by Shepherd and Wilson in Oxford and Brakenhoff and colleagues in Amsterdam etc. The circumstances are also remarkable in that Minsky only published his invention as a patent. Yet he not only built a microscope and made it work and it was the kind of prototype of which we would be proud but he showed it to a number of people who went away impressed but nevertheless failed to adopt the concept.