Origin, Scope, and Plan of this Book In July 1962 the fiftieth anniversary of Max von Laue's discovery of the Diffraction of X-rays by crystals is going to be celebrated in Munich by a large international group of crystallographers, physi cists, chemists, spectroscopists, biologists, industrialists, and many others who are employing the methods based on Laue's discovery for their own research. The invitation for this celebration will be issued jointly by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where the discovery was made, by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, where it was first made public, and by the International Union of Crystallo graphy, which is the international organization of the National Committees of Crystallography formed in some 30 countries to repre sent and advance the interests of the 3500 research workers in this field. The year 1912 also is the birth year of two branches of the physical sciences which developed promptly from Laue's discovery, namely X-ray Crystal Structure Analysis which is most closely linked to the names ofW. H. (Sir William) Bragg and W. L. (Sir Lawrence) Bragg, and X-ray Spectroscopy which is associated with the names of W. H. Bragg, H. G. J. Moseley, M. de Broglie and Manne Siegbahn. Crystal Structure Analysis began in November 1912 with the first papers ofW. L. Bragg, then still a student in Cambridge, in which, by analysis of the Laue diagrams _of zinc blende, he determined the correct lattice upon which the structure of this crystal is built.
Author(s): P. P. Ewald (auth.), P. P. Ewald (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1962
Language: English
Pages: 733
Tags: Physical Chemistry; Crystallography
Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Origin, Scope, and Plan of this Book....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
X-rays....Pages 6-16
Crystallography....Pages 17-30
Laue’s Discovery of X-ray Diffraction by Crystals....Pages 31-56
The Immediate Sequels to Laue’s Discovery....Pages 57-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
The Principles of X-ray Diffraction....Pages 82-101
Methods and Problems of Crystal Structure Analysis....Pages 102-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Growing Power of X-ray Analysis....Pages 120-135
Problems of Inorganic Structures....Pages 136-146
Problems of Organic Structures....Pages 147-173
The Growing Field of Mineral Structures....Pages 174-189
Applications of X-ray Diffraction to Metallurgical Science....Pages 190-211
Problems of Biochemical Structures....Pages 212-220
X-ray Diffraction and its Impact on Physics....Pages 221-247
Dynamical X-ray Optics; Electron and Neutron Diffraction....Pages 248-264
X-ray Spectroscopy....Pages 265-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
My Development as a Physicist....Pages 278-307
William Henry Bragg 1862–1942....Pages 308-327
Shoji Nishikawa 1884–1952....Pages 328-334
Charles Mauguin 1878–1958....Pages 335-340
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
E. S. Fedorov 1853–1919....Pages 341-351
Artur Schoenflies 1853–1928....Pages 351-353
William Thomas Astbury 1898–1961....Pages 354-356
Carl H. Hermann 1898–1961....Pages 357-360
Gösta Phragmén 1898–1944....Pages 360-364
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt 1888–1947....Pages 364-365
Christen Johannes Finbak 1904–1954....Pages 366-366
Paul Knipping 1883–1935....Pages 367-367
Memorial Tablets....Pages 368-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
British and Commonwealth Schools of Crystallography....Pages 374-429
The Development of X-ray Diffraction in U.S.A.....Pages 430-445
The New Crystallography in France....Pages 446-455
Germany....Pages 456-468
The Netherlands....Pages 469-476
Scandinavia....Pages 477-483
Japan....Pages 484-492
Schools of X-ray Structural Analysis in the Soviet Union....Pages 493-497
The World-wide Spread of X-ray Diffraction Methods....Pages 498-506
Front Matter....Pages 507-507
Some Personal Reminiscences....Pages 508-513
Development of X-ray Crystallography Research in India....Pages 514-519
Front Matter....Pages 507-507
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 520-521
My Time at the Royal Institution 1923–27....Pages 522-525
Reminiscences....Pages 526-530
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 531-539
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 540-549
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 550-555
The Genesis and Beginnings of X-ray Crystallography at Caltech....Pages 556-558
Moseley’s Determination of Atomic Numbers....Pages 559-563
For auld lang syne....Pages 564-569
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 570-573
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 574-578
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 579-581
Autobiography....Pages 582-587
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 588-591
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 592-594
Reminiscences....Pages 595-602
Recollections of Dahlem and Ludwigshafen....Pages 603-607
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 608-611
Experiences in Crystallography — 1924 to Date....Pages 612-622
Early Work on X-ray Diffraction in the California Institute of Technology....Pages 623-628
Front Matter....Pages 507-507
My Time with X-rays and Crystals....Pages 629-636
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 637-641
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 642-646
Autobiographical Data and Personal Reminiscences....Pages 647-653
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 654-661
Some Personal Reminiscences....Pages 662-666
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 667-671
Personal Recollections....Pages 672-676
My Part in X-ray Statistics....Pages 677-679
Personal Experiences of a Crystallographer....Pages 680-684
Personal Reminiscences....Pages 685-690
Reminiscences....Pages 691-694
Front Matter....Pages 695-695
The Consolidation of the New Crystallography....Pages 696-706
Back Matter....Pages 707-720
