The European Microscopy Society is an international
learned society
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which represents the field of
microscopy
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in
Europe
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. It was founded in 1998 following the disbanding of the ''Committee of European Societies of Electron Microscopy'' (which was founded in 1976) as a union of national microscopical societies.
[ The society acts as a regional committee of the ]International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
The International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (french: Fédération internationale des sociétés de microscopie électronique; es, Federación Internacional de Sociedades de Microscopia Electrónica; german: Internationaler Verband ...
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Member societies
Listed below are the bodies which are members of the EMS. All those listed have reciprocal membership agreements. The society has 52 corporate members (ECMA) and 37 individual members, with 28 member countries.
National bodies
* Armenian Electron Microscopy Society (AEMS)
* Austrian Society for Electron Microscopy (ASEM)
* Belgian Society for Microscopy (BSM)
* Croatian Microscopy Society (CMS)
* Czechoslovak Microscopy Society (CSMS)
* Dutch Society for Microscopy (NVvM)
* Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (Institute of Physics
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It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...
) (EMAG)
* French Microscopy Society (SFµ)
*German Society for Electron Microscopy
The German Society for Electron Microscopy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie, abbreviated DGE) is a learned society founded in 1949 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ernst Brüche suggested that an association dedicated to electron microsco ...
(DGE)
* Hellenic Microscopy Society (HMS)
* Hungarian Society for Microscopy (HSM)
* Israel Society for Microscopy (ISM)
* Italian Society of Microscopical Sciences (SISM)
* Microscopical Society of Ireland (MSI)
*Nordic Microscopy Society
The Nordic Microscopy Society (SCANDEM) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy in the Nordic countries. It was founded on 16 October 1948 at the Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Stockholm, Sweden and was originall ...
(SCANDEM)
* Polish Society for Microscopy (PTMi)
* Portuguese Society for Microscopy (SPMicros)
*Romanian Electron Microscopy Society
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(REMS)
*Royal Microscopical Society
The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London making it the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. In 1866, the society gained it ...
(RMS)
Other societies
* Bulgarian National Committee for Electron Microscopy
* European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS)
* Greek Society of Electron Microscopy
*Institute of Physics
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It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...
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* Latvian Society for Electron Microscopy
* Rumanian National Committee for Electron Microscopy
*]Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...
* Scottish Microscopy Group (SMG)
References
External links
Official websiteMicroscience Microscopy Congress
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International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
Royal Microscopical Society
Scientific societies based in France