Royal Institution Lectures

Seeing things in a different light: how X-ray crystallography revealed the structure of everything (Stephen Curry) (2013x14)

Ausstrahlung: Okt 25, 2013

X-Ray Crystallography might seem like an obscure, even unheard of field of research; however structural analysis has played a part in almost every major scientific field since its discovery 100 years ago by William Henry, and William Lawrence Bragg. Professor Stephen Curry charts the discovery and development of this extraordinary technique, starting with a simple explanation of diffraction, moving through the integral work of the Braggs, and ending with the cutting edge uses that X-Ray Crystallography has found in the modern world. This lecture is also available as podcast.