Science Museums : Making science more accessible or using science to effect change ? From 'temples to science' to citizen science
Science Museums : Making science more accessible or using science to effect change ? From 'temples to science' to citizen science
La licorne et le bézoard
Publie a l’occasion d’une exposition organisee a Poitiers, au musee Sainte-Croix et a l’Espace Mendes-France, l’ouvrage compose une somme historique sur les Cabinets de curiosites en Europe a partir du XVIe siecle. Les syntheses thematiques sur des problematiques liees a chaque type de cabinet – du studiolo de la Renaissance a une « idee de cabinet » au XXIe  siecle – alternent avec des focus consacres a des « curiosites » remarquables – crocodile, astrolabe, bezoard ou encore licorne et manucodiate – tandis que des extraits de textes anciens permettent d’observer comment l’on rendait compte de ce « collectionnisme » et comment la litterature pouvait s‘en faire l’echo. 
Foisonnante, la mise en page contribue a l’evocation de l’accumulation propre au phenomene historique des Cabinets de curiosites, dans un ordonnancement ou la profusion temoigne de la passion de la connaissance. L’iconographie abondante reflete le propos d’une exposition inedite en France, enrichie de prets exceptionnels de grands Cabinets d’Europe – château d’Ambras en Autriche, collections Aldrovandi a Bologne – et de nombreux musees francais.
The MR-TOF-MS isobar separator for the TITAN facility at TRIUMF
At TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear Science (TITAN) a multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MR-TOF-MS) will extend TITAN’s capabilities and facilitate mass measurements and in-trap decay spectroscopy of exotic nuclei that so far have not been possible due to strong isobaric contamination. This MR-TOF-MS will also enable mass measurements of very short-lived nuclides (half-life > 1 ms) that are produced in very low quantities (a few detected ions overall). In order to allow the installation of an MR-TOF-MS in the restricted space on the platform, on which the TITAN facility is located, novel mass spectrometric methods have been developed. Transport, cooling and distribution of the ions inside the device is done using a buffer gas-filled RFQ-based ion beam switchyard. Mass selection is achieved using a dynamic retrapping technique after time-of-flight analysis in an electrostatic isochronous reflector system. Only due to the combination of these novel methods the realization of an MR-TOF-MS based isobar separator at TITAN has become possible. The device has been built, commissioned off-line and is currently under installation at TITAN.