20 April 2011 Deputy PM Nick Clegg gets to grips with a model of Diamond. He says: “The science and technology at work here is amazing, as too is the wide variety of cutting edge experiments that Diamond is helping UK and international researchers to carry out. It is a large scale science achievement that we can all be proud of and I look forward to hearing about new discoveries that are made at Diamond in the future.”
Posted on Thursday April 21st
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Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond generates brilliant beams of light from infra-red to X-rays which are used for academic and industry research and development across a range of scientific disciplines including structural biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, earth and environmental sciences.Please do not copy and use these images without our permission. Contact Sarah Boundy for image use permission and/or high-res versions. We are happy to help.
