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The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is a high-intensity high-energy X-ray lightsource supported by the National Science Foundation and located in Wilson Lab on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, NY. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency responsible for supporting basic science research mainly by providing research funding. ...
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For census data on the two municipalities called Ithaca see Ithaca (city), New York and Ithaca (town), New York. ...
The lab provides synchrotron radiation facilities for multidiciplinary scientific research, with a particular focus on protein crystallographic studies under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator in which the magnetic field (to turn the particles so they circulate) and the electric field (to accelerate the particles) are carefully synchronized with the travelling particle beam. ...
Radiation has a variety of different meanings. ...
A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Crystallography (from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and graphein = write) is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. ...
The National Institutes of Health is an institution of the United States government which focuses on medical research. ...
History
CHESS was built between 1978 and 1980 as a synchrotron x-ray facility tied to the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) High Energy Physics program (sometimes referred to, and better known as, particle physics), which produces an electron energy of 5.5 GeV.[1] Particles erupt from the collision point of two relativistic (100 GeV) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. ...
A GEV (or Ground Effect Vehicle) is vehicle that takes advantage of the aerodynamic principle of ground effect (or Wing-in-ground). ...
"The original laboratory, CHESS West, included 3 instrumented beamlines [with] 6 independent experimental stations. Beamlines at synchrotrons are facilities at which researchers get access to synchrotron light, the tunable and high-energy X-ray beams used in synchrotron research. ...
"The CHESS East laboratory was constructed during 1988-1989, adding 2 beam lines [...] and 4 instrumented experimental stations. CHESS East contains a biohazard level BL3 facility (built with funds from the NIH) [....]
"Construction began in 1999 for an addition to the facility" to provide a new beam line and three additional experimental stations. This station, commissioned in 2002, was "constructed with extensive toxic gas handling capabilities advancing the prospects for in-situ crystal growth experiments."[2]
Work performed at CHESS and at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory garnered a split of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, M.D.[3] Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. ...
Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who in 2003 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels. ...
External Links
References - ^ Synchrotron radiation sources
- ^ CHESS Facility Description
- ^ 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Researcher Roderick MacKinnon
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