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Vector Maps and the Cyclol Hypothesis

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IN recent issues of NATURE, letters have appeared in which claims of a new method of analysis of Patterson vector diagrams are put forward with particular reference to those of crystalline insulin1. Substantially this method is not new to crystallographers; it is implied in Patterson's original paper in 19342, has been used in a number of published analyses3, and has been taught to students in Cambridge for the past three years.

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BERNAL, J. Vector Maps and the Cyclol Hypothesis. Nature 143, 74–75 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143074a0

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