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A Brief History of Diamond

Created by DiamondLightSource on Dec 2, 2010

Last updated: 12/02/10 at 07:12 AM

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• Visit by the Queen
  Oct 19, 2007

  HRH Queen Elizabeth II visits Diamond to formally open the facility.
  http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Media/LatestNews/October2007.html

• Diamond goes into operation
  Jan 1, 2007

  Diamond Light Source, a third generation medium energy synchrotron, goes into operation.
  http://www.diamond.ac.uk/dms/Images/news/Media-images/Aerial-view-of-Diamond-synchrotron/Aerial%20view%20of%20Diamond%20synchrotron.jpg

• Construction begins at Diamond Light Source
  2003

  Construction begins on the facility at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire.
  http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/About/Facts.html

• SRS opens
  1981

  The world's first dedicated synchrotron light source (SRS) opens in Daresbury, UK. Image credit: STFC Daresbury Laboratory
  www.srs.ac.uk

• Structure of DNA determined by X-ray crystallography
  1953

  James Watson and Francis Crick suggest the "double helix" structure of DNA based on an X-ray crystallography image ("Photo 51") taken by Rosalind Franklin

• First synchrotron built
  Aug 1946

  The first synchrotron goes into operation in Woolwich, UK

• Charles Barkla discovers X-ray Spectroscopy
  1906

  Charles Barkla discovers that X-rays passing through gas can be used to determine the elements in the gas.

• Discovery of X-rays
  1895

  Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-rays
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Conrad_R%C3%B6ntgen