Monthly Archives: August 2008

From Atoms to Patterns: Crystal structure designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain. Veronika Chambers

 
In the early post-war period, science enjoyed great popular appeal. X-ray crystallography - the study of the structure of molecules - was one of the most exciting fields at the time. In X-ray crystallography a narrow beam of X-ray is passed through a crystal formed of the target substance in regular arrays. The shadows cast [...]