Teaching and Research at Exeter ... in Physical Chemistry

(My) Research in Physical Chemistry There’s plenty of room at the bottom Richard Feynman “It’s very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing!”

Do all the hooves leave the ground together? An example Leland Stanford 1824 - 1893 California Governor Eadweard Muybridge 1830 - 1904 Photographer Occident ??? - ??? Race horse Do all the hooves leave the ground together?

Catching the horse in flight

10 frames per second

What if the "horse" is smaller?

A tiny horse 1000x smaller than the thickness of a human hair Need 100000 fps... Understanding biology by seeing it happen

Fresh out of the oven Balancing on the nanoscale 20 nm

Fresh out of the oven Balancing on the nanoscale 20 nm

Fresh out of the oven Balancing on the nanoscale 20 nm

Ministry of silly walks

A molecular horse - vision

A molecular horse Another factor of 100, but now need femtosecond resolution: 1 femtosecond vs 1 min = 1 min vs existence of the universe Understanding chemistry by seeing it happen

Teaching at Exeter No tutorial system = No Oxford

Tutorials in science subjects? Science students: ~50% - and these are largely 4-year courses Tutorials make the students go far beyond equations/maths What we teach there are no textbooks for There's more to Oxford than humanities

From my experience, nothing compares to Teaching at Exeter From my experience, nothing compares to the way we teach here...