1. Teaching and Research at Exeter
... in Physical Chemistry

2. (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!”

3. Do all the hooves leave the ground together?
An example
Leland Stanford
California Governor
Eadweard Muybridge
Photographer
Occident
??? - ???
Race horse
Do all the hooves leave the ground together?

4. Catching the horse in flight

5. 10 frames per second

6. What if the "horse" is smaller?

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

8. Fresh out of the oven
Balancing on the nanoscale
20 nm

9. Fresh out of the oven
Balancing on the nanoscale
20 nm

10. Fresh out of the oven
Balancing on the nanoscale
20 nm

11. Ministry of silly walks

12. A molecular horse - vision

13. 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

14. Teaching at Exeter
No tutorial system =
No Oxford

15. 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

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