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Strictly speaking, no one has ever seen an atom. It's not possible, since atoms are much, much smaller than the wavelength of visible light. The first imaging of individual atoms was done in the late 1970s. By the early 1980s, scanning tunneling microscopes were commercially available (and relatively inexpensive, as high-precision lab equipment goes).

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