History of Crystallography

History of Crystallography

These pages contain references to articles published in 'Crystallography News' since 1995 and to other places on the World Wide Web which have information on famous crystallographers,including:
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This Page last updated 30 May 2006

Articles in Crystallography News

These are listed in order of publication
Sept 95 page 26-27
My Contacts with Paul von Groth Arnold Beevers
June 96 page 50
The Crum Brown Beevers museum Arnold Beevers
Dec 96 page 51-52
Archives of crystallographers NUARCS
March 97 page 16
The Braggs in Leeds in 1915
June 97
page 16 Helen Megaw 90th Birthday
page 50 Crystallography on a carpet made for the Festival of Britain
Sept 97
page 16 - Rosalind Franklin and the Double helix - report of a lecture by Sir Aaron Klug
page 20 - origins of BCA named lectures, Bragg, Hodgkin, Lonsdale
page 63 - List of Nobel Prize Winners associated with Crystallography
June 98
page 30 - Arnold Beevers at 90
page 34 - Fifty years of neutron scattering - a celebration meeeting to mark the 80th birthday of George Bacon
page 44 - Microscopic Structure: minerals their derivatives and applications
Sept 98
page 36 Blue Plaques for Physicists
page 16 50 years of computing in Structural Chemistry and Molecular Biology in Manchester
Mar 99
page 14 50th Anniversary of the Biomolecular Structure Laboratory at Birkbeck College, London
The Icy waters of Crystal Sound, places in the Antarctic named for people who worked on the structure of ice.
Sep 01
Page 6 Royal Society of Chemistry Landmarks
and one presented in May 2001 commemmorating the work of Dorothy Hodgkin
Page 10 Crystallography and Antiquities (not on-line yet)
Mar 05
Page 6 40 years of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Dec 05
Page 20 Reprint of a radio broadcast by Sir William Bragg in 1945 published no 95 December 2005
Page 30 A brief note on Nicolai Steno

British Institutions which may have archives

Oxford University maintains a long list of museums at URL http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/index.html. Click here to access it if you do not find what you are looking for in the rest of this page.

Other historical sites outside the UK

Bibliography

These are books on the history of crystallography, including the lives of famous crystallographers, those on the discovery of the DNA double helix are in another file.
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