English language broadcast - 24/08/11

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After the news the broadcast continues with an interview with Dr. Martín Martínez, a research professor at the Spanish National Research Council and one of the organizers of the XXII General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, which opened this past Monday, August 22nd in Madrid, and which is being attended by some 2500 scientists from over 50 countries and representing a broad range of fields. For more information on this fascinating branch of science, Dr. Martínez mentions this website of the Spanish National Research Council: www.xtal.iqfr.csic.es/Cristalografia/ Then Alison Hughes answers letters from listeners in Listeners' Club.