Quote /About Microscopy and From Microscopists

Mats G.L. Gustafsson

"Once you add a computer between the microscope and the human observer, the whole game changes. At that point a microscope is no longer a device that has to generate a directly interpretable image. Now it's a device to record information."

Mats Gustafsson worked on structured-illumination microscopy which images objects smaller than the wavelength of light. In 2008 SIM was used to view animal-cell nucleus that previously had only been imaged using an electron microscopes