Day: January 18, 2014

One of the great innovations of the twentieth century is likely not well-known, but this video from the Ri Channel is looking to change that:This is X-ray crystallography. Discovered in 1913 by William and Lawrence Bragg, x-ray crystallography is a technique that reveals the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal. When a narrow beam of x-rays is shown through the crystal, it…… Continue reading Celebrating Crystallography – The Royal Institution