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What is absolutely mind blowing to me is that when I was in college, in my crystallography class, we were inferring the crystal structure through the X-ray diff
by jerzyt 6y ago
What is absolutely mind blowing to me is that when I was in college, in my crystallography class, we were inferring the crystal structure through the X-ray diffraction. Now we can observe it directly. I took the crystallography class in late 70s. I doubt that anyone had expected so much progress.
- 6nf 6y agoIn the same vein, I'm blown away what we can do with xray crystallography these days! Structures of proteins with hundreds of atoms can somehow be deduced from some tiny light spots in a kaleidoscope picture? Magical.