Seeing Things in a Different Light: How X-ray crystallography revealed the structure of everything

Outstanding lecture. Well done Sir! I’m a retired physicist, having spent much of my career mucking about in an X-ray lab doing radiology research. How I wish that I had access to lectures of this quality in my undergraduate days! Hats off too to the Royal Institution for making these wonderful lectures available. I’m very grateful for this continued intellectual stimulation now that I’m away from campus.

i almost stand up in my room to applaud. what a great lecture

My field is in materials chemistry, I use X-ray crystallography extensively to identify unknown materials. It truly is a genius technique. Big up Professor Curry for an awesome lecture :)

I love this stuff especially because it is about light, my favorite subject. I saved this lecture to nearly all my playlists because it applies to all of them .

For me, it was the best explanation of X-ray crystallography I have ever watched. the way the lecture was build, since the beginning of the X-ray until the modern ways to do it. Thank you very much. congratulations.

This is so inspiring. That is possibly the most interesting talk I have ever seen. It is also amazing to see the polymerase enzyme that was published only a fortnight ago. I hope one day I could be in a place where this astounding level of research and advancement is occurring. Thanks RI.

I have a presentation tomorrow and this is my topic that they chose for me, you have no idea how useful this was.. Great lecture!! Thank you

Love this presentation, you can also see these patterns in nature everywhere, from flowering petals to pineapple skin to a butterfly's wing.

Love Prof Curry! He taught me in my undergrad and inspired me.

Hands down one of the best presentations given on RI.

Very classic style lecture, well done, graphics were, resolution was very good. I like how the lecturer brought in the history and tied it together with present day thought. Very well delivered, nice pace. Camera though should be on at all times what the person / lecturer is pointing to or referring to, the camera man/production staff seem to forget the audience (the viewing audience) is not physical present so we can't see both the screen and the professor at the same time, but otherwise, thanks for a very professional presentation. Friends from across the lake (US) thanks again.sms

Really amazing and profound lecture. Professor Curry does a fantastic job going through this difficult topic carefully

Well that was an amazing introduction to crystallography... thank you sir. Hats off

"We know now, thanks to Quantum Mechanics, that Ladies can be fashionable and intelligent at the same time, as can men." That was really funny, hats off.

It was a privilege to view this brilliant lecture. Thank you.

That was such a good lecture so informative and entertainingly delivered. Thank you.

Being lectured this year by Prof Curry was worth the £9k alone. Thoughtful and lucid.

Great insight on the history and development of crystallography!

Amazing explanation about a so important tecnic and at the same time ignored for the vast majoriry of the people. Change the way I see the world.

A very applaudable lecture. I enjoyed every single moment of it.