The Canadian Light Source - G. Michael Bancroft, Dennis Johnson

The Canadian Light Source

A Story of Scientific Collaboration
Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0806-7 (ISBN)
58,60 inkl. MwSt
This book details the people and politics involved in the development of the Canadian Light Source, the benefits to be gained from such scientific collaboration and cooperation, and the scientific successes from this world-class facility.
The creation of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) in Saskatoon, which began operation in 2004, was the largest science project in Canada in the last fifty years. The multi-beam facility operates more than five thousand hours per year and has more than one thousand Canadian and international users from a wide range of science, medical, and engineering disciplines. This book describes the decades of intense research from many scientists to justify this project and the resulting outstanding research covering many areas of the physical, biological, medical, and agricultural sciences.

With personal accounts and frank narration, this book describes the long history leading to the CLS, beginning in Saskatoon in the 1930s. The core of the book highlights the remarkable and unselfish collaboration and cooperation of a few hundred people from Canadian and international universities, governments, and industry, showcasing how the Canadian Light Source represents pure and applied research at its finest.

G.M. Bancroft is a professor emeritus and adjunct research professor in the Chemistry Department at Western University and former Director of the Canadian Light Source. D.D. Johnson is a professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Saskatchewan and former Associate Vice-President (Research) University of Saskatchewan.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

1 Introduction
2 The University of Saskatchewan: The Electron Accelerator, Technical and Engineering Expertise, 1930s–1990
3 The University of Western Ontario: The Beamline and Experimental Expertise, 1970s–1990
4 Formation of the Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and Competition between Western and USask, 1989–97
5 The Creation of the Canada Foundation for Innovation
6 My Role as Interim Director, 1999–2001
7 The CFI: Goals, Impact, and Paul Martin
8 The Positive Impact on USask and Canadian Science

Appendix 1 Synchrotron Facilities and Synchrotron Science: A Brief Overview
Appendix 2 Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation: Announcement of CFI Funding, 1999
References
Index
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 figures
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 410 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie
ISBN-10 1-4875-0806-9 / 1487508069
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0806-7 / 9781487508067
Zustand Neuware
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