The "Race for the Double Helix" (2004)
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Double-Helix-VHS-Pigott-Smith/dp/6303247911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1271365899&sr=1-1
When crystallography was on "FILMS" not CCD's :)
Eva Kirchner wrote:
>"favourite movies involving real science"
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>The Dark Crystal (1982)!
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>(Crystallography is voodoo, voodoo is magic, magic is fantasy, therefore fantasy is science, and this movie involves science. Ha!)
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>It tells you what awful consequences arise if you break a crystal.
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>;-)
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>Am 15.04.2010 um 22:07 schrieb Brock Schuman:
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>>Wrath
>>of
>>Khan
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>>On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Chayne Piscitelli <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>The documentary "Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist"
>>>is definitely a must-see film. It captures the story of life and
>>>science in a crystallography lab, that of Dr. Larry Shapiro at Columbia
>>>University, and follows the graduate students journey of fortune
>>>and misfortune that crystallographers know so well. Not to sound too sappy
>>>about it, but it is almost like a "coming of age" story for graduate
>>>students....
>>>
>>>Check it out:
>>>http://naturallyobsessed.com/
>>>
>>>-Chayne Piscitelli
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>From: CCP4 bulletin board [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brad Bennett
>>>[[log in to unmask]]
>>>Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:43 AM
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films
>>>
>>>Hi Harry-
>>>X-ray crystallography played an integral part in discoveries made in Michael
>>>Crichton's "Andromeda Strain". Mainly it was used to determine the elemental
>>>composition and arrangement of the "capsid" or shell that the "foreign"
>>>organism was found within.
>>>
>>>Best-
>>>Brad
>>>
>>>On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:16 PM, harry powell <[log in to unmask]>
>>>wrote:
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>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question about
>>>>films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects!
>>>>
>>>>I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real science,
>>>>especially crystallography might be? If they're from Hollywood, though, I'd
>>>>guess it should be "favorite"...
>>>>
>>>>I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is
>>>>actually based on results from fibre diffraction - "Life Story", with Jeff
>>>>Goldblum. There must be others, though.
>>>>
>>>>Harry
>>>>--
>>>>Dr Harry Powell,
>>>>MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
>>>>Hills Road,
>>>>Cambridge,
>>>>CB2 0QH
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>>Brock Schuman, Graduate Student
>>Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology
>>University of Victoria
>>PO Box 3055 STN CSC
>>Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6
>>CANADA
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>>tel: 250-721-8945
>>FAX: 250-721-8855
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>Dr. Eva Kirchner
>Unité de Virologie Structurale
>Département de Virologie
>Institut Pasteur
>25, rue du Dr Roux
>75015 Paris
>France
>Phone: +33 (0)1 45 68 82 87
>Email: [log in to unmask]
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