Structure and Order: A century of symmetry with Judith Howard

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

Watch the final part of the Ri's series on crystallography (thanks to Judith Howard and STFC) Structure and Order: A century of symmetry with Judith Howard

[@AlbertoLopezisnotit]

Beautiful Being.

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

In this piece on #crystallography, Judith Howard talks about working with #DorothyHodgkin , who's birthday would have been today. She is celebrated in today's #googledoodle #science

[@GaborGyebnar]

"When we started -- or at least when I started -- it took about a year to solve relatively simple molecular structure. Now we can do several before coffee in the morning."

[@gavinwince]

Awesome Erik Satie rendition in the background... quite appropriate :)

[@AlbertoLopezisnotit]

Beautiful beings.

[@hasch5756]

I think all beauty roots in symmetry and order. From the wonderful arrangement of elements in the periodic table, to intricate animals and delicate plants assuming golden spirals and Fibonacci sequences, to the perfect match between the genealogies of evolution, genetics and taxonomy, all the way to mechanical principles like conservation of energy or angular momentum and the austere grace of platonic solids. I cannot imagine any form of elegance or refinement that is chaotic. However, this is and remains a mere conjecture of mine. If you find beauty in chaos, imperfection, asymmetry, decadence or imbalance, please show me.

[@verioffkin]

The more I see these ordered structures, the more I like chaos. But my mind, the way it works, is strictly ordered, so I try to catch an order in chaos too. These are two worlds - order and chaos, and they form, apparently, all Universe we know...

[@Gianfranco_69]

wow,she's so gangster