crystallographer
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crystallographers
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“This should clear up any questions regarding CSH,” says co-author Russell Hemley, an x-ray crystallographer at the University of Illinois, Chicago, who helped determine the material’s structure.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2023
X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin had a central role in discovering the structure of DNA.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2021
In 1952, Rosalind Franklin was at King's College London investigating the atomic arrangement of DNA, using her skills as an X-ray crystallographer to create images for analysis.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2019
So in 1953, he moved to London, to the lab of crystallographer J. D. Bernal at Birkbeck College.
From Nature ● Dec. 11, 2018
I no sooner got to the office and began explaining my scheme than the American crystallographer Jerry Donohue protested that the idea would not work.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
Well, she scanned it in as many spectra as the campus could muster, then consulted crystallographers, who in turn spoke quietly but urgently to cryptographers and linguists.
From Nature ● Aug. 29, 2017
Now, thanks to the work of crystallographers, evolutionary changes and relationships could also be revealed by examination of internal appearances.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013
These small crystals are usually discarded by crystallographers, as typical microscopes are not bright enough to extract information from them.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 11, 2012
The Festival Pattern Group brought together a team of modern-minded crystallographers and adventurous commercial manufacturers.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2010
Francis wanted to talk to Dorothy Hodgkin, the best of the English crystallographers, while I welcomed the opportunity to see Oxford for the first time.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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