ABSTRACT
The recognition and understanding of the role of the microstructure in controlling the macroscopic behavior of a material has been a major theme of science and technology throughout the history of National Bureau of Standards (NBS)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). To evaluate the state of the development of quantitative analysis and to stimulate further progress in the measurement science of electron probe microanalysis, Heinrich organized a special workshop in June of 1967 that brought together the leaders of the field. The document of this gathering, NBS Special Publication 298, Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis, edited by Heinrich, became the "bible" of the rapidly developing field. The study of the interaction of electrons and x rays with matter was an area of intense interest to physics in the first half of the 20th century.
