SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Oxford Wins a Crown Synchrotron Jewel
Michael Hagmann
On 13 March U.K. science minister David Sainsbury announced that DIAMOND, an $880 million synchrotron project that would
allow scientists to probe the atomic structure of everything from proteins to ceramics, will be set at the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Losing out was the heir apparent--the Daresbury laboratory near Manchester, the site of
the U.K.'s current synchrotron facility. Many scientists are denouncing the selection.