ASCB CellBASE: Classic Collection

Classic Collection

This topic page includes information and resources on cell biology's founding scientists, including Don Fawcett, George Palade, and Keith Porter.

For images from founding ASCB scientists, check out these resources:

ASCB Image & Video Library (our peer-reviewed collection of cell biology videos specifically on Classic image.)

For images from Don Fawcett, check out these resources:

ASCB Image & Video Library (our peer-reviewed collection of cell biology images specifically on from Don Fawcett)

The Cell: Don Fawcett's 1981 atlas of electron micrographs depicting all major areas of the cell.

For images from George Palade, check out these resources:

ASCB Image & Video Library (our peer-reviewed collection of cell biology images specifically on from George Palade)

For images from Keith Porter, check out these resources:

ASCB Image & Video Library (our peer-reviewed collection of cell biology images specifically on from Keith Porter)

Differential Expressions: Collection of slides from scientists who have contributed to the field of developmental biology
Ernst Ruska: autobiography of Nobel Prize winner Ernst Ruska, developer of the electron microscope
George E. Palade EM Slide Collection: a selection of lantern slides from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library covering George Palade'syears at the Rockefeller University and Yale University School of Medicine
History of building the 1938 Toronto electron microscope: from University of Toronto
History of Cell Biology: Dr. Vladimir Matveev's web-page depicting the history of cell biology for The International Federation for Cell Biology
History of the development of the scanning electron microscope: from University of Cambridge
History of the Discovery of the Cell: from 1550 through 1949.
History of the Microscope: by Microscopy UK
Memoir on inventing the confocal microscope: by Marvin Minsky

Classic Collection

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