Celebrating 75 Years of Science with Synchrotron Light with #My1stLight campaign

Welcome to our #My1stLight campaign page!

• Fred Mosselmans’ #My1stLight 2022/12/08
• Mirian Garcia-Fernandez’s #My1stLight 2022/12/07
• Andrea Ilari & Adriana Erica Miele’s #My1stLight Memories 2022/12/05
• Gerold Rosenbaum’s #My1stLight – First Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Pattern 2022/09/21
• Benedetta Casu’s #My1stLight 2022/08/16
• Aleksei Kotlov’s #My1stLight 2022/07/29
• Canadian Light Source’s #My1stLight on the Far Infrared Beamline in 2005 2022/07/29
• Ryan Tappero’s #My1stLight 2022/07/07
• Karen Cloete’s #My1stLight 2022/06/23
• Karen Appel’s #My1stLight 2022/06/12
• Gerold Rosenbaum’s #My1stLight 2022/06/08
• Joseph Nordgren’s #My1stLight 2022/05/31
• Joseph Nordgren’s #My1stLight 2022/05/31
• Cecilia Rocchi’s #My1stLight 2022/05/23
• Ramon Pascual’s #My1stLight on International Day of Light! 2022/05/16
• Piero Pianetta’s #My1stLight 2022/05/09
• Giorgio Margaritondo’s #My1stLight 2022/04/28
• The first direct visual observation of synchrotron light in a laboratory 2022/04/24

“The first observation, literally since it was visible light that was seen, came at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, on April 24, 1947.”*

*X-ray Data Booklet, Oct 2009, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (https://xdb.lbl.gov/)

The synchrotrons and Free Electron Lasers within the Lightsources.org collaboration invited facility staff and users to join in with our 75 years of science with synchrotron light celebrations.

Lightsources.org invited all those connected with light source science to share their #My1stLight memories to celebrate the amazing journey that the field has been on during the past 75 years.

Type of memories submitted:

1^st day at work at a light source

1^st time you used synchrotron light for an experiment

1^st time you visited a light source

1^st time you learnt about synchrotron light (and your thoughts at the time!)

1^st time you worked on a component for a light source

Any other light source related 1sts!

Format:

The community was invited to choose their preferred format.  It could be a photo with a caption, short story, audio/video recording of the memory, a poem, song, artwork, comedy sketch, short play, post for Instagram or Twitter etc.  Whatever format people were comfortable was fine by us!

Submissions:

Now that all the #My1stLight memories have been gathered in, we will be sharing them via this page and social media over the next few months.

We hope you enjoy this trip down light source memory lane and would like to thank all the participants for their submissions.