Seeing Things in a Different Light - How X-ray Crystallography Revealed the Structure of Everything
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Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Thomas Henry Huxley
X-ray scattering
Crystallisation of Lysozyme
Zinc Blende (Zn) crystals
Reflection from several semi-transparent layers of atoms
Layers in crystals
The reaction of chemists
Diffraction from crystals of big molecules (1929)
Biological crystallography
Myoglobin structure (1959)
Haemoglobin structure (1962)
The Diamond Light Source
Taught by
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