Diamond Light Source Photographic Exhibition

8 9 A view down the beamline of I06 showing the optics enclosures, where the X-ray beam is focused and manipulated before illuminating a sample.​ (Image: Andrew Brookes) Pathogens can range from deadly to annoying, however their beauty at the atomic scale is uncontested. Mapped using data taken at Diamond, this is the Poliovirus – a highly transmissible, disabling and life-threatening disease that can infect a person’s spinal cord, causing paralysis. ​ (Image: Diamond Light Source, Oxford University and Leeds University)