P212121

I LOVE old school crystallography. I am guessing this is because I have never done it
Images with film. Hand drawing electron density. Structures with wires. Hardcore.

I just came across this exhibition entitled “From Atoms to Patterns“.

You know of any other old school tributes?

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   Sili
   November 19th, 2009 at 12:53 PM #

   I’ve done film, even on a Weissenberg camera.

   But only to evaluate crystal quality and perhaps determine unitcells. We only had a automated point-diffractometer when I did my b.sc., so it wasn’t actually a bad use of time to check the crystals first.

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   Hector
   November 21st, 2009 at 10:59 PM #

   I spent some time (a summer) in Alex Rich’s lab working on some projects with a post-doc friend and it was cool to see the old light table and other things (models, film, acetate slides, etc) just lying around for me to drool / play with.

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   Sean
   November 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 AM #

   Hi Hector. Welcome to P212121!

   Thanks for sharing, been getting a lot of tips of locations to sleep at other beam lines:

   @ankitgpta My experience to get a sleep at CHESS is the couch in the kitchen near the coffee machine.