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  • MCI Logo graphic in the style of an image taken by an electron microscope.

    James Hillier

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate the inventor and scientist James Hillier. Canadian born Hillier created a prototype of the electron microscope as invented by Ernst Ruska as a graduate student. It was only a matter of time before he took things further and he later worked with Albert Prebus in…

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  • MCI Electronics logo featuring a black hole in celebration of the life of Stephen Hawking.

    Stephen Hawking

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    This week, MCI wishes to celebrate the life of the late, great Stephen Hawking. This genius of a man was famous within his own lifetime for his academic writing, widely read and appreciated by the general public and academics alike. Author of such books as ‘A Brief History of Time’,…

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