"The atom probe was introduced at the 14th International Field Emission Symposium in 1967 by Erwin W. M\u00FCller and John Panitz. For the first time an instrument could \u201C... determine the nature of one single atom seen on a metal surface and selected from neighboring atoms at the discretion of the observer\u201D. Erwin Wilhelm M\u00FCller, J. A. Panitz, and S. Brooks McLane."@en . . .