A Little History

The attached file is an update of an account written by Vernon E. Cosslett, the first General Secretary of IFSM (then IFSEM). The original article is on page 3 of Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics v96 which was published in 1996. This book also describes the early years of many of IFSM's members and contains many photos of the pioneers of electron microscopy.
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The IMC18 meeting in Prague

The 2014 Award Winners have been selected following nomination by microscopists and a vote by the IFSM Executive Board

                                            i. The John Cowley Medal                  John Spence of Arizona Sate University

                                            ii. The V. Ellis Cosslett Medal            Ondrej Krivanek of Nion

                                           iii. The Hatsujiro Hashimoto Medal      Chunlin Jia of Jülich

                                           iv. The Eduard Kellenberger Medal      Alasdair Steven of NIH
IFSM ran a day-long special event for winners of the Young Scientist Awards; this took place on the Sunday during the day and concluded before the Welcome Reception in the evening. Young scientists will again apply for these awards in early 2018.
After Prague: The Polish Society hosted their XV International Conference on Electron Microscopy from 15-18 September 2014 in Cracow, Poland
In 2018, we will consider bids to host IMC20 in 2022. The Bids to host IMC19 and nominations for the open positions on the Executive Board were all received on or before 11 June 2014, as required in the Bylaws (3 months before the General Assembly).

Letters from the IFSM President

Letter from the President Dr. C Barry Carter, January 2011
Letter from the President Dr. Christian Colliex , January 2010
President's Report 2007-2010 Christian Colliex
President's Report 2006 David Cockayne

Past Meetings

Memories of IMC17 in Rio
Rio Opening Ceremony
50 Scholarships of $1000 each were awarded to 50 Young Scientists to help them attend the meeting. 46 did join us to present their papers.
Almudena Torres-Pardo Heather Tierney 
Sónia Simões 
Hadi Razavi Khosroshahi Amuyla Nidhi Shrivastava 
Susanne Perlt 
Melissa Santala 
Eveline Verleysen Aurélien Masseboeuf 
Fei-Ting Huang
Zuzana Burdikova 
Nicole Frindt 
Ivana Radisavljevic 
Lewis Zhen-Yu Liu 
Milivoj Plodinec 
Eva McGuire 
Timothy Pennycook 
Maria Pogorelova 
Matti Miriga van Schooneveld
Aziz Genç 
Evgeniy Dubrovin Ana Isabel Pereira Kristina Zagar Maria Rudneva Lucian Roiban Maria Milla Astals Trevor Almeida Anna Heidt
Anna Jansson 
Leopoldo Molina Santhosh Chenna Gilberto Casillas-Garcia Chengcai Wang 
Deok-Hwang Kwon Maria Messing 
Laura Bocher 
Jaysen Nelayah
James Ciston
Yuan Zhao 
Paul Kempen 
Dirk Wall 
Sergey Shershakov 
Ai Leen Koh 
Egor Turley 
Shigeyuki Morishita Justinas Palisaitis

History: A Past President

This article is from the PLoS and reminds us of the 7th President of IFSM (then IFSEM). Don Fawcett was one of the pioneers in applying the electron microscope to biological materials.A pioneer of electron microscopy and one of its greatest practitioners for studying the organization of cells and tissues, Fawcett died at his home in Missoula, Montana on May 7, 2009 at the age of 92.
Sadly, this article omits the fact that he was President of IFSM!


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The Ernst Ruska Family Site

Some IFSM History from Sapporo in 2006

At the 2006 IMC, we gathered together as many Past Presidents of IFSM as possible for lunch with some of the then-current Executive Board.
The back row is (L to R) Sumio Iijima (the 2006 Conference Chairman), Gullermo Solorzano (the 2010 Conference Chairman), Barry Carter (General Secretary in 2006), Brendan Griffin, Pramote Vanittanakom and Hannes Lichte (all Board Members, Brendan newly elected), David Cockayne (President in 2006), Peter Ingram (newly elected Board Member), Christian Colliex (Board Member and newly elected President for 2007), Wolfgang Baumeister (Board Member) and Kazuo Furuya (Secretary of IMC-16). Front row (L to R) Past Presidents Elmar Zeitler, Arvid Maunsbach, Gareth Thomas, Hatsujiro Hashimoto and Archie Howie.

The IFSM Medals

Cowley Medal 2010: Wolfgang Baumeister was awarded the 2nd John Cowley Medal at the IMC-17 in Rio. The first medal honoring the late John Cowley was presented to Sumio Iijima at the Sapporo meeting in 2006.
The call for nominations for the 3rd Cowley Medal is now online; the Medal will be presented at the Prague meeting in 2014 along with 3 other new medals.