ALL THE WORLD'S A LAB

摘要

On the face of it, Brian Tonner looks like a bit of a slacker. Despite being in charge of a host of instruments on the world's brightest beam of X-rays at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory near San Francisco, he hardly ever goes to work there. The X-ray beam passing through his equipment constantly churns out fascinating insights into the miniature world of atoms and molecules- and yet weeks can pass without Tonner laying hands on his experiments.