Example Sentences

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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

Ideas put forward with conviction were likely to be the products of wild crystallographers who delighted in being in a field where their ideas could not be easily disproved.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson