Recollections on the applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) methods in Hungarian mineralogy and geology (1970–2020)

Abstract

TEM methods have played an important role in mineralogical research and earth sciences over more than seven decades, and the impact of TEM continues to increase exponentially. There is no single technique which has contributed more to our knowledge on the texture, real structure, and the chemistry of matter at the highest spatial, and temporal resolution than TEM. Hungarian mineralogists started to use TEM in the 1970s and at that time introduced the topic into the curriculum at Eötvös University, Budapest. This short paper does not intend to look at the nature of TEM itself but is rather an inventory of the results obtained using TEM methods in Hungarian mineralogical and geological research in the period between 1970 and 2020.