The 46th annual meeting of the ISM will be held on May 22nd at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. Please find more details at the ISM 2012 page.

Heartiest congratulations to Danny Shectman, Honorary Lifetime Member of the Israel Society of Microscopy, on his being awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his ground breaking 1982 discovery of quasi-crystals.

Picture: courtesy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology