Fading sunflowers

last modified 16-02-2011 18:02

X-rays reveal why van Gogh paintings loose their shine - this joint press release by the ESRF with five partners attracted global media coverage, generating several hundred articles worldwide, along with radio and TV coverage.

This article in the online magazine of "Scientific American" also includes a video animation produced to visualise the experiments performed at ID21 by the team led by Koen Janssens from Antwerp University:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=x-rays-blow-up-secret-to-van-goghs-2011-02-14#comments

Also the well-known blog "sciences2" by Sylvestre Huet/Libération covered the story (in French):

http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2011/02/pourquoi-le-jaune-de.html

"Die Welt" reported at length, in print and online (in German):

http://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/wissen/article12561046/Warum-die-Chemie-bei-van-Gogh-nicht-mehr-stimmt.html

ESRF in the media: Oldest Record of Insect Pollination 15-05-2012; How sand becomes glass 15-05-2012; Fluorescent proteins 11-04-2012; No Volcanos on the Moon 02-04-2012; Sea Urchins are no Easy Prey 02-04-2012; more

Conferences: Debian for Scientific Facilities Days 24-06-2012; HSC14: Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Materials for Energy 17-09-2012; Training Course in Complementary Optical Spectroscopies in Macromolecular Crystallography 19-09-2012; SYNEMAG 2012 17-10-2012; more conferences…

Seminars: PIXSIC – design and characterisation of a miniaturised pixellated silicon probe for in vivo functional brain imaging in freely moving rats 31-05-2012; Growth and properties of the window layer of a chalcopyrite based thin film solar cell device 01-06-2012; more seminars…

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