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Seeing the invisible: Uwe Bergmann at TEDxGunnHighSchool

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Uwe Bergmann, a graduate from Stony Brook University, is a Senior Staff Scientist at SLAC and the Deputy Director of the Linac Coherent Light Source at the Laboratory. His research activities are focused on the development and application of novel x-ray spectroscopic techniques. He recently used a special imaging technique, x-ray fluorescence imaging, to reveal hidden writings in the 10th century Archimedes Palimpsest. He also led an x-ray scanning experiment on Archaeopteryx, a 150-million-year old "dinobird" fossil, which revealed previously unseen elements of the animal's original chemistry.
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