Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   1. Origin, Scope, and Plan of this Book

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 1-4

3. The Beginnings

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. X-rays

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 6-16

   3. Crystallography

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 17-30

   4. Laue’s Discovery of X-ray Diffraction by Crystals

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 31-56

   5. The Immediate Sequels to Laue’s Discovery

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 57-80

4. The Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. The Principles of X-ray Diffraction

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 82-101

   3. Methods and Problems of Crystal Structure Analysis

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 102-118

5. The Growing Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. The Growing Power of X-ray Analysis

      • W. L. Bragg

      Pages 120-135

   3. Problems of Inorganic Structures

      • Linus Pauling

      Pages 136-146

   4. Problems of Organic Structures

      • J. Monteath Robertson

      Pages 147-173

   5. The Growing Field of Mineral Structures

      • F. Laves

      Pages 174-189

   6. Applications of X-ray Diffraction to Metallurgical Science

      • W. Hume-Rothery

      Pages 190-211

   7. Problems of Biochemical Structures

      • Ralph W. G. Wyckoff

      Pages 212-220

   8. X-ray Diffraction and its Impact on Physics

      • Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

      Pages 221-247

   9. Dynamical X-ray Optics; Electron and Neutron Diffraction

      • P. P. Ewald

      Pages 248-264

   10. X-ray Spectroscopy

       • Manne Siegbahn

       Pages 265-276

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.

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