§16§§Synchrotron radiation has been a revolutionary and invaluable research tool for a wide range of scientists, including chemists, biologists, physicists, materials scientists, geophysicists. It has also found multidisciplinary applications with problems ranging from archeology through cultural heritage to paleontology. §16§ray photoemission. §04§Introduction and Historical Background.- The Storage Ring Complex.- Synchrotron Radiation Fundamentals.- X-Ray Optics SynchrotronBeamlines.- X-Ray Detectors and Electronics.- X-Ray Absorption 〓02§§Stephen P. Cramer is a chemist with over 45 years' experience in the field of synchrotron radiation. He is Advanced Light Source Professor Emeritus at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is now a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin.§