Microscopical_Society_of_Ireland

Microscopical Society of Ireland

Microscopical Society of Ireland

Irish scientific foundation/society

The Microscopical Society of Ireland (MSI) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy in Ireland. It was founded in 1975 as the Irish Society For Electron Microscopy and held its first symposium the following year at University College Dublin,[1] an event they have held every year since 1979.[4] It shares the Journal of Microscopy with the Royal Microscopical Society as its official journal.[5] The society is the member organisation of the European Microscopy Society representing the island of Ireland.[6]

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Earlier societies

There existed previously a Microscopical Society of Dublin formed in November 1840.[7] Irish civil engineer Thomas Fleming Bergin was the president of this society 1842.[8]

References

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    Carter, C Barry; Williams, David B (2009). Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science, Volume 2 (2nd ed.). New York City: Springer Science+Business Media. p. 20. ISBN 9780387765013. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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    "National and regional societies". European Microscopy Society. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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    Cooper, Daniel (1842). The Microscopic Miscellany; being selections from the Microscopic Journal. London. p. 159.
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    Bergin, Thomas Fleming (1847). Cooper, Daniel (ed.). "March 3rd, 1842 - T.F. Bergin, Esq., President, in the Chair". Microscopic Journal. The Microscopic Miscellany (1). London: 158. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
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