Map that Campus XV

OK here is this week's mystery campus:

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Hint:
Looking for the nugget in gold.

If you know the place or the event, leave a comment.

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Once again, it is not Northwestern.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider smashes gold nuclei, but that doesn't look like Brookhaven National Lab.

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

The University of Manchester is where Ernest Rutherford fired alpha particles at a thin piece of gold foil to probe atomic structure, is it not?

Once again it is NOT Northwestern...

Looking for nuggets in gold? Colorado or Notre Dame! Is that Touchdown Jesus I see? No! It's Charley Weiss, who has been eating good lately... No, it's the Good year Blimp, hovering over Notre dame Stadium, ready to bring us the Michigan - ND game Saturday.

"Golden rice was created by Ingo Potrykus of the Institute of Plant Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, working with Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg."

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 15 Sep 2006 #permalink

A while back I promissed not to post the answer before the weekend. Well it's Saturday mornning and let's see ... kc wrote:

The University of Manchester is where Ernest Rutherford fired alpha particles at a thin piece of gold foil to probe atomic structure

Exactly. The discovery of the nucleus. Special recognition to somnilista, FCD for creativity.

It's the shotgun approach. It works great for genome sequencing as well.

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 16 Sep 2006 #permalink