indirectly
A scanning probe microscope will not resolve an atom
They can't see atoms with a naked eye, but they can use an electron microscope or a STM (scanning tunneling microscope).
The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.
one can make images of atoms using a scanning tunneling mcroscope.
No. John Dalton was alive in the 1800s. There were no electron microscopes at that time.
With a Scanning tunneling microscope STM
A scanning probe microscope will not resolve an atom
The scanning tunneling microscope has a small probe which actually more like "feels" the size of the atoms and reads this out on a computer screen. The probe can pick up individual atoms. IBM used a STM years ago to spell I B M with uranium atoms and took a picture of it. But one does not actually directly "see" the atoms.
In 1981 the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) was invented. The STM has ultrahigh resolution and can image single atoms.
scanning tunneling microscope
They can't see atoms with a naked eye, but they can use an electron microscope or a STM (scanning tunneling microscope).
scanning electron microscope
scanning probe
"View" may not be exactly the right word. A Scanning Tunneling Microscope can be used to gather data that a computer can turn into an image, but they're not really "seeing" the individual atoms directly.
B. Scanning Tunneling
The needle doesn't actually touch the atoms, but you can their outlines.
You can view an atom with a scanning- tunneling microscope and a atomic force microscopes.