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New science and technology

There are many fields of new science where access to a synchrotron is essential. To underline this point with a recently recognized breakthrough, the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes". This work was supported by experimental research performed at the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley, and solved the structure of the AQP1 protein.

The following links will take you on a tour of the exciting opportunities for scientific discovery that is offered by access to modern synchrotron light sources


Nobel Prizes awarded for research with X-rays

Since their discovery in 1895, X-rays have had an extraordinary and pervasive influence on society, and have been used to obtain a fundamental understanding of physical and biological processes that have led to the development of new technologies. This has been recognised by the award of fifteen Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry or Medicine to research depending directly on the use of X-ray radiation.
1901W. C. Roentgen in Physics for the discovery of X-rays
1914M. von Laue in Physics for X-ray diffraction from crystals
1915W.H.Bragg and W.L.Bragg in Physics for crystal structure derived from X-ray diffraction
1917C.G.Barkla in Physics for characteristic radiation of elements
1924K.M.G.Siegbahn in Physics for X-ray spectroscopy
1927A.H.Compton in Physics for scattering of X-rays by electrons
1936 P.Debye in Chemistry for diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases
1962M.Perutz and J.Kendrew in Chemistry for the structure of haemoglobin
1962J.Watson, M.Wilkins and F.Crick in Medicine for the structure of DNA
1964D.C.Hodgkin in Chemistry for the structure of vitamin B12 and penicillin
1979A.McLeod Cormack and G.Newbold Hounsfield in Medicine for Computed Axial Tomography
1981K.M.Siegbahn in Physics for high resolution electron spectroscopy
1985H.Hauptman and J.Karle in Chemistry for direct methods to determine X-ray strustures
1988J.Deisenhofer, R.Huber, and H.Michel in Chemistry for the structures of proteins crucial to photosynthesis
2003R.MacKinnon in Chemistry for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
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