James Hiller
James Hiller
James Hillier (Born August 22, 1915 in Brantford, Ontario and died January 15, 2007
in Princeton, New Jersey) was a Canadian scientist and inventor who designed and
built the first electron microscope in North America in 1938.
As a boy, James Hillier thought he would like to be a commercial artist. Instead, he
turned out to have a talent for mathematics and physics, and won a science
scholarship to the University of Toronto. There, he and fellow student Albert Prebus
invented the world's first practical electron microscope