Shine on you crazy Diamond

摘要

The UK's Diamond Light Source is celebrating five years since it first opened its doors to scientists looking to probe the structure and properties of materials with brilliant beams of light. It is also a decade since the joint venture between the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Wellcome Trust established Diamond as the successor to the UK's previous synchrotron source at Daresbury. One of the world's brightest sources of electromagnetic radiation from infra-red to x-ray, Diamond has so far received ￡380 million of investment to provide scientists worldwide with its powerful crystallographic and spectroscopic tools.