Marvin Minsky is famous (1) the father of Artificial Intelligence, but he was (2) the author of another signal achievement. In the 1950s, he built a revolutionary light microscope that enabled him to (3) successfully deeper layer in a specimen with astonishing clearness, (4) first having to undertake the hard task of cutting the specimen into thin (5) Minsky’s invention did not (6) wide praise from the public at that time. (7) , when he patented(申请 专利权) his "double - focusing stage-scanning microscope" in 1961, (8) people understood what it could do. During the 17-year life of the patent, no (9) of similar design were manufactured. (10) for his newly invented optics, Minsky (11) on to other challen- ges, leaving his intention to rust in a (12) of his basement.
Thirteen years later his approach (13) known as confocal microscopy(双焦显微镜学) caught public attention. (14) , the technology is proving to be one of the most exciting advances in optical microscopy in this century. The extent (15) which current interest was sparked by rediscovery of Minsky’s early (16) is not completely clear. (17) , the happy result is that scores of (18) kinds of confocal microscopes are now (19) in form that (20) from easy to complicated.