Some videos on X-ray crystallography

As I am writing the fundamentals part of my Thesis I have to read up on a lot of stuff, like fore example the experimental methods for getting a protein structure. And although the new “hot” method for this is of Cryo-EM, I found it quite interesting to understand how to get from a scattering pattern to a protein structure. Which basically is getting from a scattering pattern to an electron density by doing a fourier transformation.

Where F is the according 3D scattering profile that one gets by measuring the scattering from many angles. But that is already too much I actually simply wanted to drop 3 good videos from The Royal Institution in here that I found:

A longer talk (around 1h)

And two shorter videos


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