Early days of X-ray crystallography
By: André Authier, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Contributors: International Union of Crystallography
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; International Union of Crystallography
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford; [Chester, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780199659845
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: X-ray crystallography; History; X-rays; Diffraction; Lattice theory; Discoveries in science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-432) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Significance of the discovery of X-ray diffraction -- -- 2. The; title: various approaches to the concept of space lattice -- -- 3. The; title: dual nature of light -- -- 4.; title: Röntgen and the discovery of X-rays -- -- 5. The; title: nature of X-rays : waves or corpuscles? -- -- 6. 1912 : the; title: discovery of X-ray diffraction and the birth of X-ray analysis -- -- 7. 1913 : the; title: first steps -- -- 8. The; title: route to crystal structure determination -- -- 9.; title: X-rays as a branch of optics -- -- 10.; title: Early applications of X-ray crystallography -- -- 11.; title: Unravelling the mystery of crystals : the forerunners -- -- 12. The; title: birth and rise of the space-lattice concept.