X-ray crystallography camera
- ID-nummer
- 2001.001.001
- Titel
- X-ray crystallography camera
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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The X-ray camera was used by Max Perutz and John Kendrew in their research on the structure of the proteins hemoglobin and myoglobin.
The camera was invented by mineralogist M. J. Buerger in the early 1940s. On its X-ray diffraction photographs the spots are arranged at the corners of a three¬dimensional lattice which is the reciprocal of the real lattice. These photographs were more straightforward to interpret than the ones taken with other types of camera used before.
The precession camera moves the crystal about one of its axes like a spinning top. Max Perutz and John Kendrew used it together with a home-built X-ray tube with a rotating anode that gave a beam ten times more intense than any commercial tube. Thanks to these instruments they were better equipped for protein crystallography than any other laboratory in the world; this contributed decisively to their solution of the first protein structures.
The camera was presented to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2000 by Max Perutz. - Location
- Permanent exhibition
- Pristagare
- Max F. Perutz
- Provenance
- 94 Nobel Museum Temporary
Part of X-ray crystallography camera