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Space Crystals

Bycorie October 2, 2017

Recently, Marc helped a user run some crystals which the user had arranged to have grown in zero-gravity. Here are pictures of the crystal capillaries mounted at the beamline, and the raster grid used to locate crystals within a capillary.

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Goodbye, Charlie!
Bycorie May 11, 2017

Sadly, today was Charlie Eigenbrot’s last PRT meeting, since he is retiring from Genentech in June. We will miss him! (But we do hope we comes back to visit us periodically at the synchrotron)

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Winner: Matt Clifton of Nurix!
Bycorie May 30, 2017

We held a jelly bean counting contest at our booth at the ACA. Matt Clifton of Nurix was the winner. Good job, Matt!

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BCSB Lunch at Picante
Bycorie January 24, 2020

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Thank you Clency for processing all 22 of the BCSB Outgoing Dewars today!
Byslortega October 21, 2019

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Berkeley’s Mini-Cyclotron
Bycorie January 7, 2016

It turns out there is a small cyclotron at LBNL! It is used to produce medical isotopes used for PET scans. Some of the BCSB staff were lucky enough to be invited on a tour of the cyclotron, which is in building 56, not too far away from our more familiar synchrotron in building 6.

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Where to put that Pilatus?
Bycorie December 19, 2015

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