Miscellanea
Crystallography on the iPhone
Ivan Orlov and Gervais Chapuis have released an iPhone app to help teach crystallographic symmetry. read more »
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A Point Of View (Radio 4) 5th March 2010
Lisa Jardine reflects on the valuable example of the Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, who bridged the so-called divide between the arts and the sciences. Listen on the BBC iPlayer.
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Seizure: Crystallographic Art
A dreary, grey, condemned, 1960s low-rise council flat is an unusual place to find one of the most beautiful pieces of crystallographic art in the UK.
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A rare glimpse of the cave of crystals
From the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8466493.stm read more »
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CSD hits half-a-million crystal structures
The CSD’s 500,000th structure is the anti-convulsant drug Lamotrigine, published in Acta Crystallographica, C65, o460-o464, 2009, by Balasubramanian Sridhar and Krishnan Ravikumar of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology in Hyderabad. The CSD reference code for the structure is EFEMUX01. read more »
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Crystalline Art
A collection of beautifully colourful images of crystalline material by Robert B. Alcott http://crystallineartistry.net/
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