Interview with Emeritus Professor John Panitz

July 17, 2025

John Panitz with equipment

Emeritus Professor John Panitz donated several original atom-probe exhibits from his museum as well as a collection of the late Erwin Wilhelm Müller’s research materials to the Penn State Eberly College of Science. This includes Müller's field emission microscope — which was used to confirm the phenomenon of quantum mechanical tunneling — and the remaining parts of the original atom-probe field ion microscope.

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