Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction

I. Introduction.- 1. Origin, Scope, and Plan of this Book.- II. The Beginnings.- 2. X-rays.- 3. Crystallography.- 4. Laue’s Discovery of X-ray Diffraction by Crystals.- 5. The Immediate Sequels to Laue’s Discovery.- III. The Tools.- 6. The Principles of X-ray Diffraction.- 7. Methods and Problems of Crystal Structure Analysis.- IV. The Growing Field.- 8. The Growing Power of X-ray Analysis.- 9. Problems of Inorganic Structures.- 10. Problems of Organic Structures.- 11. The Growing Field of Mineral Structures.- 12. Applications of X-ray Diffraction to Metallurgical Science.- 13. Problems of Biochemical Structures.- 14. X-ray Diffraction and its Impact on Physics.- 15. Dynamical X-ray Optics; Electron and Neutron Diffraction.- 16. X-ray Spectroscopy.- V. In Memoriam.- Autobiography.- William Henry Bragg.- Shoji Nishikawa.- Charles Mauguin.- E. S. Fedorov.- Artur Schoenflies.- William Thomas Astbury.- Carl H. Hermann.- Gösta Phragmén.- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt.- Christen Johannes Finbak.- Paul Knipping.- Memorial Tablets.- VI. Schools and Regional Development.- 17. British and Commonwealth Schools of Crystallography.- 18. The Development of X-ray Diffraction in U.S.A..- 19. The New Crystallography in France.- 20. Germany.- 21. The Netherlands.- 22. Scandinavia.- 23. Japan.- 24. Schools of X-ray Structural Analysis in the Soviet Union.- 25. The World-wide Spread of X-ray Diffraction Methods.- VII. Personal Reminiscences.- Some Personal Reminiscences.- Development of X-ray Crystallography Research in India.- Personal Reminiscences.- My Time at the Royal Institution 1923–27.- Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- The Genesis and Beginnings of X-ray Crystallography at Caltech.- Moseley’s Determination of AtomicNumbers.- For auld lang syne.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Autobiography.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Reminiscences.- Recollections of Dahlem and Ludwigshafen.- Personal Reminiscences.- Experiences in Crystallography—1924 to Date.- Early Work on X-ray Diffraction in the California Institute of Technology.- My Time with X-rays and Crystals.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Autobiographical Data and Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Some Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Reminiscences.- Personal Recollections.- My Part in X-ray Statistics.- Personal Experiences of a Crystallographer.- Personal Reminiscences.- Reminiscences.- VIII. The Consolidation of the New Crystallography.- Appendix: Biographical Notes on Authors.