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This video explores SLAC's synchrotron facility, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and its 50-year history, from its creation to its current status as a pivotal research facility. The video showcases research conducted over the past five decades, highlighting the innovative ways X-ray light sources are used. In medical settings, X-rays help to view the inside of the body. At SLAC's synchrotron, they allow scientists to capture molecules and atomic structures.

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Written, edited and produced by Olivier Bonin.

0:00 Welcome to SSRL
0:36 HISTORY: SPEAR collides particles (1972) and helps discover J/PSI and Tau Lepton. Nobel Prize in physics 1976 & 1995
1:15 SYNCHROTRON radiation are used to image molecules (1973)
2:08 X-ray DIFFRACTION images help solve molecular structures
2:54 SSRL becomes a national laboratory and makes major new discoveries in macromolecular biology (1977)
3:40 Roger Kornberg gets the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry thanks to his work at SSRL
4:02 New UNDULATORS are installed in the storage ring for better X-rays (1993)
5:02 Another UPGRADE in 2003 opens up even more research capabilities
5:43 ARCHIMEDES writing hidden discovered in 1000-year old manuscript
6:01 SARS-CoV-2 molecular structure studied at SSRL (Covid-19)
6:17 SSRL is a user facility open to all researchers needing X-ray imaging
7:04 CREDITS

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