17th October 2013
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| Event Name | CRISTALLI! |
| Start Date | 6th Oct 2013 |
| End Date | 2nd Mar 2014 |
| Duration | 148 days and 1 hour |
| Description | Crystals - known to everybody as gems, snow crystals, or salt grains - are widespread in the nature around us. The investigation of their structure and properties means looking inside the intimate of atom geometries - a look contributing to the scientific development of chemistry, solid state physics, Earth sciences, and even, surprisingly, biology and medicine. A century has passed since the crystals first revealed their secrets. In the meantime crystallography has become the pillar of the atomic and molecular sciences, showing us the structure of DNA, allowing the comprehension and the development of computer memories, visualizing the formation of proteins within cells, and yielding ever new materials and drugs. This is why on July 2012, resolution 66/284 of the General Assembly of the United Nations declared 2014 - after 100 years from the awarding of the first Nobel Prize for the discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals - the International Year of Crystallography. The exhibition organized at the University of Padova wishes to celebrate the theoretical and applied aspects of crystallography on the occasion of the International Year. See the photos of the exhibition taken during the Opening Ceremony on 5 October 2013 |
| Location | Padova Italy |
| Contact | Gilberto Artioli cristalli.centromusei@unipd.it |
| URL | http://www.geoscienze.unipd.it/cristalli/welcome.html |
| Category | exhibitions |
| Event Name | Jan Czochralski commemorative seminar |
| Start Date | 17th Oct 2013 |
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| Duration | N/A |
| Description | In October 2013 at the Department of Chemistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 89, lectures on Jan Czochralski scientific achievements and on crystal growth methods will be given by Prof. Anna Pajączkowska (Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Warsaw, Poland) and by Dr. Reinhardt Uecker (Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Germany). The lectures will be accompanied by a travelling exhibition devoted to Jan Czochralski.
In conjunction with IYCr2014, the year 2013 is celebrated in Poland as the Year of Jan Czochralski (1885-1953) – crystallographer, chemist, metallurgist, the forefather of the electronic industry, most known for the development of the single-crystal growth method commonly used in the fabrication of silicon wafers. http://www.nauka.gov.pl/ministry/the-jan-czochralski-year/ |
| Location | Poznań Poland |
| Contact | Maria Gdaniec magdan@amu.edu.pl |
| URL | http://www.mnisw.gov.pl/en/the-jan-czochralski-year/ |
| Category | seminars |
| Event Name | Platonic Solids and Quasicrystals - Moments in the History of Crystallography |
| Start Date | 30th May 2013 |
| End Date | 4th May 2014 |
| Duration | 340 days |
| Description | This year's exhibition at Carolina Rediviva, Platonic Solids and Quasicrystals, is all about crystallography and shows how this science has been perceived over time. By collaborating with the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, we can exhibit books side by side with real crystals, models of crystals and instruments that have been used to measure the angles of these strange formations that seem to have been cut and polished by human hand whereas in fact they have been shaped by uniform atomic structures. Welcome on a beautiful journey through this collection of historical scientific books and artifacts. |
| Location | Uppsala Sweden |
| Contact | Johan Kjellman johan.kjellman@em.uu.se |
| URL | http://www.ub.uu.se/en/Just-now/Exhibitions/Current-exhibitions/ |
| Category | exhibitions |