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Lt. Gov. Awards $15M Grant to High Tech Cornell X-ray Facility

By Yuichiro Kakutani November 15, 2017

CHESS is a highly sophisticated radiation facility and “one of four facilities in the world that produces X-rays of this caliber,” said President Martha E. Pollack.
Cornell Synchrotron Begins Two-Month X-Ray Run, Receives Mechanical Upgrades

By News Department October 13, 2015

By CAMILLE WANG
From last Wednesday to Dec. 8, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), also known affectionately as the “world’s coolest microscope” by CHESS Director Prof. Joel Brock, applied and engineering physics, will be holding a scheduled x-ray run for users around the nation.