Series Beauty in Science

A museum exhibits works of art. They can amaze or move the spectator and induce emotion and often a sense of beauty.
Science is a search, based on verifiable facts, for new knowledge of reality.
The exhibition ‘Beauty in Science’ (12 February - 5 June 2011) investigates whether images of great beauty occur in the physical sciences.
For this, Prof. Dr. Hans Galjaard has spent two years gathering images from colleagues. The 800 pictures and films in the exhibition are taken from physics, chemistry, geology, microbiology, marine biology, botany, spore diversity, cell biology of higher organisms, human reproduction and astronomy. Beautiful images of (sub)atomic particles, the effect of sound on matter, crystals of small and large  molecules, multicoloured grindings of stone, single-celled organisms, plants and fungus. Using modern technology, the birth of a stem cell in higher organisms, the cell and chromosome division, and the death of a cell is made visible. Finally, the exhibition has moving pictures of the human foetal development and incredible recordings of the universe.
It is apparently there: beauty in science Will this be a new source of inspiration? For both art and science?

A number of videos record the exhibition and the educational programme.
You can view a video of the lecture given by Prof. Dr. Hans Galjaar about how the exhibition came about (compilation and complete version), get an impression of the symposium that was organised in the context of the exhibition and listen to scientists discussing beauty and science during the opening on 12 February 2011.