Diamond Light Source is the United Kingdom's national synchrotron light source science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, England.
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YearConstruction began in 2001; first user beam came in January 2007 and the facility was formally opened 19 October 2007. SignificanceDiamond is the largest UK-funded scientific facility built in the UK since the Nimrod proton synchrotron of 1964, and replaced the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury Laboratory. 1 Sources
1. Diamond Light Source (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationDesign, construction and finance section, para 2
Diamond produced its first user beam towards the end of January 2007, and was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 19 October 2007.
Design, construction and finance section, para 1
The Diamond synchrotron is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built in the UK since the Nimrod proton synchrotron which was sited at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1964.
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Diamond Light Source is the United Kingdom's national synchrotron light source science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, England.
In Group: Synchrotron Light Sources, Introduction
Diamond Light Source (or just Diamond) is the UK's national synchrotron light source science facility located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
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