Hans Busch (physicist)

Hans Busch (27 February 1884 in Jüchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – 16 February 1973 in Darmstadt, Hesse) was a German physicist. He was a pioneer of electron optics and laid the theoretical basis for the electron microscope.

Ernst Ruska read a paper by Busch in the academic journal Archives Elektrotechnik where Busch suggested that magnetic fields could be used to direct beams of electrons in a way analogous to the way lenses directed light in an optical microscope.^[1]

In recognition of his work in the field, Busch was unanimously elected an honorary fellow of the German Society for Electron Microscopy at its first meeting in 1949.^[2]

References

1. Pietzsch, Joachim. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986—Life through a Lens". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
2. Mulvey, Kazan and Hawkes (5 August 1996). The Growth of Electron Microscopy. Academic Press. ISBN 9780080577623. Retrieved 18 August 2013.