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NEW: Now with French or Spanish subtitles (click on the ‘Captions’ icon to select). Plus… Watch the French language version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvLu7BOsJhM
X-ray crystallography is arguably one of the greatest innovations of the twentieth century, but not that many people know what it is or how it came about.
Join us on an animated journey through the 100 year history of crystallography — from the pioneering work of William and Lawrence Bragg in 1913 to the surface of Mars!
Narrated by structural biologist Stephen Curry and produced by animation company 12foot6, the film explores the extraordinary history of crystallography. To date 28 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to projects related to the field and X-ray crystallography remains the foremost technique in determining the structures of a huge range of complex molecules.
This film was produced in celebration of the Bragg Centenary and was funded by STFC.
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Big people know about crystallography, too. I'm 6'4" and I studied it at university.
The music is Swan Lake BTW.
Thanks for making me laugh.
The dream team! Rofl
whats the song in the video ?
This is a great video. Great animation. Easy to follow.
Has anyone else noticed the correlation between the Diffraction Pattern and the Seed of Life pattern? They've known this for a hundred years?
This is surely the link between science and spiritualism.
you're certainly welcome, mate!
Science of human emotions promoted the video. Very Positively. I almost had a heart attach 😀
Thanks, what was indeed a very enlightening lecture 🙂
Dude, please do the world a favour and never get into teaching.
From How Much Energy It Gives Off Couldn't We Turn That Into Electricity?
Too much on WHO and not enough on WHAT.
EXCELLENT!! And also there are Spanish subtitles by clicking the 'Captions' icon.
Kinda exciting as i did about this not that long ago in biochemistry (it being related to proteins in this instance)
This animation is absolutely fantastic!
I'm sorry, I'm trying to concentrate but the music from Swan Lake softly playing in the background is stealing my attention. Arts vs Science: ART WINS!
Very nice animation!
The song fit perfectly with this video!
Really like this song! What's the name of it?
IMO, The 'only' problem with this video, is that it doesn't tell you anything at all about crystallography (other than that you shine a beam through a crystal and photograph the pattern). Not a single example of precisely how one deduces a particular fact from a particular image is given. Mm
whoa! supreme .no info about crystallography though.couldnt help liking the video…
Hola. Me gustó mucho su video. ¿Lo tienen disponible con subtitulos en español?. Gracias.
awesome vid!
This video presents its content in an entertaining way. Good job 😀
This video was presented really well, I thoroughly enjoyed the animation. Keep up the impressive work :p
Awesome )O_-(
Very nice animation and the content is rich.
this is gonna be my major, im so excited
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Bragg XRD Microscopy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08g44fmdu6g&list=PL7032E2DAF1F3941F
this video is just AMAZING…… I love how things gets illustrated.