Hi Harry- X-ray crystallography played an integral part in discoveries made in Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain". Mainly it was used to determine the elemental composition and arrangement of the "capsid" or shell that the "foreign" organism was found within.
Best- Brad On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:16 PM, harry powell <ha...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>wrote: > Hi > > Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question about > films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects! > > I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real science, > especially crystallography might be? If they're from Hollywood, though, I'd > guess it should be "favorite"... > > I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is > actually based on results from fibre diffraction - "Life Story", with Jeff > Goldblum. There must be others, though. > > Harry > -- > Dr Harry Powell, > MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, > Hills Road, > Cambridge, > CB2 0QH >
