I read about a professor who is developing a microscope using something called optofluidics. Sounds brilliant and all that, but since when did did you get to be a professor while still in high school?
Changhuei Yang
Optofluidics – Optofluidics is a nascent technology field that combines optics and microfluidics. Prof Yang’s group is working on developing a microscope-on-a-chip system that is tiny, high resolution and cheap. This optofluidic microscope has the potential of dramatically improving third world healthcare and simplifying bioscience research. Prof Yang serves as the associate director of the DARPA funded Center for Optofluidic Integration at Caltech.
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The older I get the more interested in stuff like this I am. I always wanted a microscope, and still do. Not so much to look at micro organisms, but little things around the house …dust, a fingernail, a speck of suger, etc. I read the other day atoms were simply a theory until about 1986 when they developed a microscope which confirmed it. Alas, there are things smaller than an atom …a quarck (something like that). Fascinating!
I always wanted a telescope. I told my grandmother I wanted “something scientific, to look at and study things with.” I got a microscope for Christmas that year.