“…providing physical explanations and in-sights by turning microscopy from a 'peepshow' and show-box into a measuring tool for unraveling the structureproperty relationship. Therefore the latter expression was chosen as an appropriate working title of this contribution for Jing Zhu which the author adopted more or less from his former supervisor, colleague and good fellow friend in microscopy Gareth Thomas (1932-2014) UC-Berkeley and NCEM, USA [4,5] .…”