IFSM News
At the General Assembly held at IMC19 in Sydney the following were elected to the IFSM Executive Board.
President
Professor Angus Kirkland
General Secretary
Professor Eva Olsson
Executive Board Members
Professor Jordi Arbiol
Professor Reinhard Rachel
Professor Virginie Serin
Professor Kamanio Chattopadhyay
Inderpreet Gill was elected to the Executive as the representative of ICMA
The executive board of ISFM sadly announces that Professor Alec Moodie passed away on the 9th July 2018.
Professor Moodie was a pioneer in electron microscopy and diffraction who is perhaps best known for his development of the multislice method widely used for the simulation of electron scattering.
IFSM has been admitted as a full union member of the International Council for Science
IFSM warmly congratulates Professors Richard Henderson, Joachim Frank and Jacques Dubochet on the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize for “developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
The Executive Board of IFSM sadly announce that Professor Hatsujiro Hashimoto passed away on April 15th, 2017.
Professor Hashimoto served on the IFSM Executive Board as the President from 1982 to 1986 and as the Chair Person of the 11th International Congress on Electron Microscopy (ICEM) held in Kyoto, Japan, 1986.
Obituary of Professor Hatsujiro Hashimoto:
Professor Hashimoto served on the IFSM Executive Board as the President from 1982 to 1986 and as the Chair Person of the 11th International Congress on Electron Microscopy (ICEM) held in Kyoto, Japan, 1986.
Obituary of Professor Hatsujiro Hashimoto:
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