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Microscopy

Dr Mark Lythgoe visits the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility near Oxford, a huge microscope that requires a doughnut-shaped building the size of five football pitches.

Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, tells the untold story of medical imaging and why uncovering our inner selves changed the world.

A hunched figure peering down a microscope is the ultimate symbol of the scientist - from George Eliot's Dr Lydgate in Middlemarch to adverts for cocoa powder. Mark Lythgoe explores the cultural implications of revealing a hidden kingdom and visits a doughnut-shaped microscope the size of five football pitches near Oxford.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 28 Jan 2010 15:45

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  • Thu 28 Jan 2010 15:45