Peter Wothers - Xenon
The Christmas Lecturer's favourite chemical element.
About this video
Strange happenings.
For the final film in our advent series, the 2012 Christmas Lecturer, Dr Peter Wothers travels to the Sheffield University MRI Unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital to explore how the strange properties of his favourite chemical element are being used to image living lungs.
In the build up to this year's Christmas Lectures, we've published a new video for every day of advent revealing the elements that really excite and inspire people. Explore the series on the Ri's Online Advent Calendar.
Watch the Christmas Lectures on BBC Four @ 8pm on 26,27 and 28 December - and on the Ri Channel in the New Year.
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Details
- Type:
- Demo
- Organisations/Partners:
- University of Sheffield MRI Unit
- People:
- Dr Peter Wothers
- Location:
- Sheffield, UK
- Published:
- 2012
- Filmed:
- 2012
- Credits:
The Royal Institution
- Collections with this video:
- The Modern Alchemist, My Favourite Element, Ri Shorts
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The MIR scan of Peter's lungs.
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The full set of MIR scan images of Peter's lungs.
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The Modern Alchemist: 2012 Christmas lectures
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