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Book SynopsisThis book is published to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014, as proclaimed by the United Nations. The year has been chosen as the International Year of Crystallography since it was 100 years ago that the first Nobel Prize was awarded for crystallographic observations to Max von Laue. Just a year later, Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, father and son, won their prize for showing the possibility of determining atomic positions in crystals. This book describes the lives and works of 33 Nobel Laureates starting with Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901) and ending with Brian Kobilka (2012). It also reproduces the most important works of these scientists. The book gives a historical perspective of a scientific field that is important for our understanding of the atomic organization of the world around us, from inorganic materials to complex biological molecules, such as the ribosome.This book is a timely summary of the main developments in crystallography over the last 100 years. The central publications of 33 Nobel laureates are reproduced. There is no other book providing this selection of material.
Table of Contentsuber eine neue Art von Strahlen (Erste Mittheilung) (W C Rontgen); uber eine neue Art von Strahlen (Zweite Mitteilung) (W C Rontgen); Interferenz-Erscheinigungen bei Rontgenstrahlen (W Friedrich, P Knipping, M Laue); The Structure of Some Crystals as Indicated by Their Diffraction of X-rays (W L Bragg); The background to the Nobel Prize to the Braggs (A Liljas); The Diffraction of Electrons by a Crystal of Nickel (C JDavisson); The Diffraction of Electrons by Single Crystals (G P Thomson); The Isolation and Crystallization of the Enzyme Urease: Preliminary paper (J B Sumner); Crystalline Pepsin I Isolation and tests of Purity (J H Northrop); Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus (W Stanley); The Nature of the Chemical Bond (L Pauling); Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids (J D Watson and F H C Crick); Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (M H F Wilkins, A R Stokes and H R Wilson); Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate (R E Franklin and R G Goosling); Structure of Hemoglobin A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 55-A Resolution, obtained by X-ray Analysis (M FPerutz, M G Rossmann, A F Cullis, H Muirhead, G Will and A C T North); Structure of Myoglobin: A Three-Dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 A Resolution (J C Kendrew, R E Dickerson, B E Strandberg, R G Hart, D R Davies, D C Phillips and V C Shore); X-ray Crystallographic Evidence on the Structure of Vitamin B12 (C Brink, D C Hodgkin, J Lindsey, J Pickworth, J H Robertson and J G White); Early Development of Neutron Scattering (C G Shull); Approaching the Molecular Structure of Ribosomes (A Yonath and H G Wittmann); Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry (D Shechtman, I Blech, D Gratias and J W Cahn); and other papers;
