Developments in microscopy in the last twenty years or so have been dramatic and impressive. Not only can individual atoms be seen with relatively inexpensive instruments, but is even possible to manipulate them, fulfilling the prophecies made by Richard Feyrman in his “Room at the Bottom” address given in 1959. Why, one might reasonably ask. when it is possible to observe, manipulate, and identify single atoms, would someone want to waste their time with an instrument so “old fashioned” as a light microscope?