Two million hours of science

G N Greaves; C R A Catlow; G E Derbyshire; M I McMahon; R J Nelmes; G van der Laan

doi:10.1038/nmat2305

Two million hours of science

Nat Mater. 2008 Nov;7(11):827-30. doi: 10.1038/nmat2305.

Authors

G N Greaves¹, C R A Catlow, G E Derbyshire, M I McMahon, R J Nelmes, G van der Laan

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Mathematics and Physics, and Centre for Advanced Functional Materials and Devices, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK. gng@aber.ac.uk

PMID: 18955989
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2305

Abstract

After over a quarter of a century, the doors of the world's first synchrotron radiation source have closed. Its contribution to materials science in the past and the future should not be underestimated.