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Curios of 60 years of the LMB

In an exhibition celebrating 60 years of the LMB, an assortment of curios – unusual and intriguing items – have been gathered together to give a glimpse into the life and work of the LMB. From scientific models, to restaurant menus, Nobel prize telegrams and a special lab coat, find out more about the LMB from some of the objects made and collected through the decades. Also view a rare amateur film of the first couple of years of the LMB, including one of the Lab’s first Nobel celebrations, and see footage inside the original 1962 building.

1966 Symposium Programme
The symbolic ‘Key of the Laboratory’
A 1974 computer generated Patterson map
Dideoxys and aliquots
The LMB building, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Site, 1962.
Telegram announcing the awarding of the Nobel prize for Chemistry, to Max Perutz and John Kendrew, 1962.
Seminar bell, 1970s.
In 1977, Nigel Unwin produced the first low resolution 3D map of a ribosome – using crystalline sheets of ribosomes which develop in the oocytes of the lizard Lacerta sicula during its winter hibernation period. The 3D tetramer structure is represented in a glass layered contour map.
Tau filament model 1985. 20 Angstrom balsa wood model made by Claudio Villa, for Tony Crowther.
2 Angstrom 3-D printed model of a tau filament, 2017, from Sjors Scheres.
A model showing a paired-helical filament from Alzheimer’s disease brain, 2017, from Sjors Scheres - the work featured on the front cover of Nature.
Max Perutz’s lab coat. Removed from his office after his death in 2002.
Byron’s bender wire model of bacteriorhodopsin, c.1980s.
A photomultiplier detector.
‘Gap Junction’ model from Nigel Unwin, c.1980.
DNA double helix knitting, 2003.

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