Voyage dans le Cristal - the Bragg Centenary 2012 edition

Voyage dans le cristal was a major exhibition first shown in 2009 in Grenoble and other French cities. It formed the basis for a presentation at the 2012 Bragg Centenary Symposium in Adelaide. This is the version available to browse on this site. Select one of the pages below to launch into a voyage to discover crystals in their many aspects: their wonder and mystery; their place in the history of science; their use in multiple contemporary applications.

Introduction

Crystals: Objects of beauty and source of riches

"Angular stones": The Birth of Crystallography

Crystals and X-rays: made for each other!

Alice and Joseph in Crystal-land

Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry

Nano-porous Crystals: the Zeolites

Crystals, Chirality and Pasteur

Using crystals to understand living organisms

Egyptian cosmetics . . . and crystallography!

Growing crystals

Crystals and their uses