Quantum of spin - Dr Simon Benjamin | The Royal Society

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What connects state-of-the-art medical imaging and the quest to build the ultimate supercomputers? The answer: a quantum property called spin which is possessed by electrons and atomic nuclei.

Dr Simon Benjamin from the Quantum of spin exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses his work.

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