Czech scientists first to look inside atom

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Radio Prague International, 15.11.2021.

A team of Czech scientists has developed a new microscopic method that made it possible to look inside the atom for the first time ever. The new method was tested on the theory of so-called “sigma holes” - asymmetric electron density distributions on single atoms of halogen elements. To find out more about how the discovery works and what it could lead to I spoke to one of the scientists that took part in the project - Dr Pavel Jelínek from the Institute of Physics at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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