Tag: Cultural Heritage
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CERN technology helps rediscover lost painting by Raphael
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael 500 years ago, the Italian painter Raphael passed away, leaving behind him many works of art, paintings, frescoes and engravings. Like his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael’s work made the…
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Medipix: Two decades of turning technology into applications
The story of how detector components ended up in medical imaging, in art restoration and even in space. How could microchips developed for detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) be used beyond high-energy physics? This was a question that led to the Medipix and Timepix families of pixel-sensor chips. Researchers saw many possible applications…
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CERN Open Days: Technologies that change your lives
What does CERN have to do with 3D colour x-rays and 19th century paintings? What does CERN have to do with 3D colour x-rays and 19th century paintings? Join experts from the CERN Knowledge Transfer Group on 14-15 September at the CERN Open Days, and learn more about the real-life applications of CERN’s highly advanced…
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How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
BBC on Fake Art – InsightART in the report! BBC on Fake Art – InsightART in the report! In: BBC News, May 12th Also On Medipix