The list of books is here.....

http://kubrickmovies.hostei.com/aconovel.html

but so far no trace of who Burgess' "model" might be.

J
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Dr Judith Murray-Rust
Structural Biology Laboratory
Cancer Research UK.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Felix Frolow
> Sent: 16 April 2010 12:52
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films
> 
> You are absolutely right, it was not a student but an elderly scholar,
> probably professor
> of crystallography in one of the London colleges  or Universities.
> Maybe Imperial (so we can also trace this person). Anthony Burgess,
the
> author,
> probably projected someone he knew into the book. In the movie there
is
> a scene of Alex's gang
> beating an elderly scholar, but the list of books that were in his
> possession is not there.
> I think it is still counts. I whatched the film after I have reading
> the book, and "knew" that crystallography
> book is there.
> ;--)
> Dr  Felix Frolow
> Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
> Department of Molecular Microbiology
> and Biotechnology
> Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
> 
> Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor
> 
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> 
> On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:33 , Philip Leonard wrote:
> 
> > I have a vague recollection of a student carrying books about
> > crystallography getting beaten up at the start of Clockwork Orange.
> This
> > might only be in the book though...
> >
> > This opens a whole new can of worms! How many films would contain
> > references to crystallography if only the screenwriter hadn't decide
> to
> > omit the reference in favour of something else more fun.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
> > harry powell
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5:16 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [ccp4bb] X-Ray films
> >
> > 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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