UNIVERSALITY OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
S. F. Solodovnikov1,2
1Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: crystallography, crystal chemistry, history, crystal structure, structural design, structural chemistry
Abstract
The work briefly considers the historical development of crystallography from a "servant of mineralogy" to a basis of the modern natural sciences, which became possible thanks to the discovery, in 1912, of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals and X-ray structural analysis with the subsequent rapid accumulation of structural knowledge in chemistry and other sciences.
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