"favourite movies involving real science" The Dark Crystal (1982)!
(Crystallography is voodoo, voodoo is magic, magic is fantasy, therefore fantasy is science, and this movie involves science. Ha!) It tells you what awful consequences arise if you break a crystal. ;-) Am 15.04.2010 um 22:07 schrieb Brock Schuman: > Wrath > of > Khan > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Chayne Piscitelli <pisci...@ohsu.edu> wrote: >> The documentary "Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist" >> is definitely a must-see film. It captures the story of life and >> science in a crystallography lab, that of Dr. Larry Shapiro at Columbia >> University, and follows the graduate students journey of fortune >> and misfortune that crystallographers know so well. Not to sound too sappy >> about it, but it is almost like a "coming of age" story for graduate >> students.... >> >> Check it out: >> http://naturallyobsessed.com/ >> >> -Chayne Piscitelli >> >> ________________________________ >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Brad Bennett >> [bradbennet...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:43 AM >> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films >> >> 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 >> >> > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------- > Brock Schuman, Graduate Student > Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology > University of Victoria > PO Box 3055 STN CSC > Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6 > CANADA > > tel: 250-721-8945 > FAX: 250-721-8855 ------------------------------------------ Dr. Eva Kirchner Unité de Virologie Structurale Département de Virologie Institut Pasteur 25, rue du Dr Roux 75015 Paris France Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 82 87 Email: eva.kirch...@pasteur.fr
