Re: BE ALERT to short sharp stabbing pains in head!! Lucky, The reason they are suggesting an mri is for 2 reasons. The first being mris are alot more detailed than cat scans and can show things that cat scans cannot. Second they do it to cover their butts.
Quick Answer. Physicist Ernst Ruska and German engineer Max Knoll are credited with creating the first electron microscope in 1932. It permitted researchers greater magnification and resolution than traditional light microscopes.
Robert Hooke was the English scientist who in 1665 built one of the  first primitive microscope. He also was the first to describe the  shape and characteristics in cells. Edit.