Most people know that you can’t see atoms… or can you? With this special microscope, scientists actually can! In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet of metal. Join Olivia Gordon for a peek into the tiny world of atoms in this fun new episode of SciShow!
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