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09th October 2009 - BITE Visit
British Institute of Technology & E-commerce Visit to ISIS:
A momentous week for BITE was capped with a visit to ISIS, the centre for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Didcot in Oxfordshire. A small, but enthusiastic party, including the BITE Director Dr Farmer, Professor T. Knibb, Professor Waheed, members of staff, delegates from the World Hi-Tech Forum and selected students, eventually arrived by coach at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, where they were given a warm welcome in the Visiting Centre. After an introductory talk by the ISIS Director, Dr Andrew Taylor, the party of twenty were given a tour of the main research facility.
This is centred on a 143-metre beamline that transmits neutrons and muons through a channel of super-microscopes that allows scientists to study various materials at an atomic level and apply their findings to a range of scientific disciplines. Some idea of the infinitesimal scale of the operation can be given in the consideration that muons are sub-atomic particles, whose relatively long life of two-millionths of a second (!), offer scientists enough time to measure the properties of the materials brought in for study. It is for this reason that ISIS is the world’s leading research centre in this field and is therefore of particular interest to BITE’s emerging Nanotechnology department, which shares its quest for scientific innovation.
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