Dear Bulletin Board,
The following URL's may help people to understand crystallography (this was also pointed out to me by Ines Kahlaoui last night, I am so grateful to her):
http://videolectures.net/mit3091f04_sadoway_lec14/ (for the Boltzmann distribution)
through to
http://videolectures.net/mit3091f04_sadoway_lec19/
and the lecturer there is a very good lecturer. I haven't slept much last night :-) .
Nothing about the maths, but you can't have everything. And people usually choke on the maths.
Fred.
> Message du 14/11/09 10:04
> De : "George M. Sheldrick"
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> Objet : Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about
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> I also think that it is a very nice video and I will certainly be showing
> it to my students (and relatives). However the little step between
> recording the X-ray reflections and getting a final refined map might be
> expanded a little. That is after all what CCP4 etc. is about! Otherwise,
> despite the suggestion in the film that an expert should be consulted, we
> are reinforcing the view held by many biologists and chemists that crystal
> structure determination is a routine analytical method and not suitable
> for an academic career. It worries me that in a couple of decades there
> will be few people still active who really understand how it works. On
> the other hand, Berhard's impressive new book may solve that problem (if
> people still read books).
>
> George
>
> Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS
> Dept. Structural Chemistry,
> University of Goettingen,
> Tammannstr. 4,
> D37077 Goettingen, Germany
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