Science of Crystal Structures

Istvan Hargittai, PhD, DSc, is Professor Emeritus (Active) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea (London) and foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is Dr.h.c. of Moscow State University, the University of North Carolina and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Structural Chemistry, an international research journal by Springer-Verlag. Balazs Hargittai, PhD (University of Minnesota), is Professor of Chemistry of Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania. He is also Associate Dean, School of Sciences and Director of the Office of Student Research of Saint Francis University. He was co-author of Candid Science V (Imperial College Press, London) and of Great Minds--Reflections of 111 Top Scientists (OUP, New York). He has been active in publishing and editorial activities in addition to his research and teaching.

X-Ray Crystallography: The Past and Present of the Phase Problem.- History of X-ray crystallography.- Gas Electron Diffraction and its Influence on the Solution of the Phase Problem in Crystal Structure Determination.- Generalized Crystallography.- Anti-Mackay, Double-Mackay, Pseudo-Mackay, and Related Icosahedral Shell Clusters.- Crystallography without a Lattice.- Polygrammal Symmetries in Biomacromolecules: Heptagonal Poly d(As4T)- poly d(As4T) and Heptameric -Hemolysin.- Helical Structures: The Geometry of Protein Helices and Nanotubes.- From Waxes to Polymers-Crystallography of Polydisperse Chain Assemblies.- Structure, Chirality, and Formation of Giant Icosahedral Fullerenes and Spherical Graphitic Onions.- A generalized model for the shell structure of icosahedral viruses.- Intermetallic compounds of the NaCd2 family perceived as assemblies of nanoclusters.- Linus Pauling's quest for the structure of proteins.- There is no such animal ( )-Lessons of a discovery.- Quasicrystal discovery-from NBS/NIST to Stockholm.- Atomic structure of quasicrystals.