Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction

Edited by P. P. Ewald
IUCr Publications
Contents
Full Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Origin, Scope, and Plan of this Book
II. THE BEGINNINGS
2. X-rays
3. Crystallography
4. Laue's Discovery of X-ray Diffraction by Crystals
5. The Immediate Sequels to Laue's Discovery
III.THE TOOLS
6. The Principles of X-ray Diffraction
7. Methods and Problems of Crystal Structure Analysis
IV. THE GROWING FIELD
8. The Growing Power of X-ray Analysis
9. Problems of Inorganic Structures
10. Problems of Organic Structures
11. The Growing Field of Mineral Structures
12. Applications of X-ray Diffraction to Metallurgical Science
13. Problems of Biochemical Structures
14. X-ray Diffraction and its Impact on Physics
15. Dynamical X-ray Optics; Electron and Neutron Diffraction
16. X-ray Spectroscopy
V. IN MEMORIAM
Max von Laue
William Henry Bragg
Shoji Nishikawa
Charles Mauguin
E. S. Fedorov
Artur Schoenflies
William Thomas Astbury
Carl H. Hermann
Gösta Phragmén
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Christen Johannes Finbak
Paul Knipping
Memorial Tablets
VI. SCHOOLS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
17. British and Commonwealth Schools of Crystallography
18. The Development of X-ray Diffraction in U.S.A.
19. The New Crystallography in France
20. Germany
21. The Netherlands
22. Scandinavia
23. Japan
24. Schools of X-ray Structural Analysis in the Soviet Union
25. The World-wide Spread of X-ray Diffraction Methods,
VII. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES
E. N. da C. Andrade
K. Banerjee
N. V. Belov
J. D. Bernal
J. M. Bijvoet
W. L. Bragg
J. C. M. Brentano
M. J. Buerger
C. L. Burdick
C. G. Darwin
J. D. H. Donnay
R. Glocker
A. Guinier
G. Hägg
Albert W. Hull
R. W. James
H. Lipson
K. Lonsdale
H. Mark
Isamu Nitta
A. L. Patterson
Linus Pauling
Michael Polanyi
J. Monteath Robertson
Paul Scherrer
A. V. Shubnikov
M. E. Straumanis
Jean Jacques Trillat
B. E. Warren
A. Westgren
A. J. C. Wilson
W. A. Wooster
Jean Wyart
Ralph W. G. Wyckoff
VIII. THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE NEW CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
APPENDIX: Biographical Notes on Authors
SUBJECT INDEX
LIST OF REPEATEDLY OCCURING SUBSTANCES
INDEX OF LOCALITIEs AND SCHOOLS
INDEX OF NAMES