Pavel Jelínek (
Czech pronunciation: [ˈpavɛl ˈjɛliːnɛk]; born November 17, 1972) is a
Czech physicist, member of an international group of scientists (from
Japan,
Spain and
Czech Republic), that for the first time chemically identified individual
atoms using an
atomic force microscope and
quantum-mechanical computation. More specifically, they were able to image surface of an
alloy at atomic resolution and successfully identify
tin,
lead and
silicon atoms on this surface.
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