infocus #4 December 2006 50 years of Microscope Use in Scientific Publications

the Dental Research Institute (Witwatersrand) experience (1954-2004)

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.13

A study providing a historical and factual account of 50 years microscope-based dental research activity which will be of vital comparative importance in the forthcoming era of "microscopy taught digitally".

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Authors

Elly Grossman

Elly Grossman is a life scientist who has been working in the field of dental research for 27 years. She has kept a foot firmly in both camps over these years and in her publications and presentations she has tried to educate the scientist about dentistry and the dentist about science, using the electron microscope as an aid. She is presently a Professor at the Dental Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Mirriam Mogotsi

Mirriam Mogotsi has been working for the SA Medical Research Council since 1982 as a Research Technologist. During her time at the Dental Research Institute she was extensively involved in nutrition studies, scanning electron microscopy of tooth brush bristles and data capture. She was transferred to the MRC Health and Development Research Group in 2004 and is extensively involved in a number of studies related to domestic and industrial pollutants.