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.][
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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
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
) (EMAG)
* French Microscopy Society (SFμ)
* German Society for Electron Microscopy (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 (SCANDEM)
* Polish Society for Microscopy (PTMi)
* Portuguese Society for Microscopy (SPMicros)
* Romanian Electron Microscopy Society (REMS)
* Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)
Other societies
* Bulgarian National Committee for Electron Microscopy
* European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS)
* Greek Society of Electron Microscopy
*Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, physics research, research and applied physics, application.
It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide ...
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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; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...
* 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