crystallography

noun

crys·tal·log·ra·phy | \ ˌkri-stə-ˈlä-grə-fē

Definition of crystallography

: a science that deals with the forms and structures of crystals

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Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for x-ray crystallography. — Daniel C. Schlenoff, Scientific American, "“Foul Treachery” of Trotsky and Lenin in 1918; Phineas Gage’s Brain in 1868," 13 July 2018 Rosalind Franklin unlocked the secrets of DNA’s double helix structure courtesy of her work on X-ray crystallography. — Brian Keating, WIRED, "There's Nothing Noble about Science’s Nobel Prize Gender Gap," 27 May 2018 That landmark discovery, made possible by the x-ray crystallography work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, put Francis Crick and James Watson at the forefront of the burgeoning field of molecular biology. — National Geographic, "How We've Tackled the Evolving Science of DNA," 25 Apr. 2018 The technique, called crystallography, was a bit like making a shadow animal on the wall with one’s hand and a flashlight. — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, "Brainstorm Health: Science and International Women's Day, Cigna-Express Scripts, IBM Watson and Mayo Clinic," 9 Mar. 2018 The scattering can be used to create imagery of these materials in much the same way that X-ray crystallography reveals the structure of complex molecules. — Tim Lougheed, Science | AAAS, "Canada’s neutron scientists lament closure of world’s oldest nuclear reactor," 21 Sep. 2017 Experimental and analytical sciences—genetics, biochemistry, crystallography, and eventually molecular biology—made natural history seem old fashioned. — Steven Lubar, Smithsonian, "A Scholar Follows a Trail of Dead Mice and Discovers a Lesson in Why Museum Collections Matter," 10 Aug. 2017 Imaging molecules For years, understanding the structure of a complex molecule like a protein or RNA involved a technique called X-ray crystallography. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Algorithm designer among those honored with the Chemistry Nobel," 5 Oct. 2017 Other teams had designed x-ray crystallography to image tiny structures, but the process did not work with many living structures. — Maggie Fox, NBC News, "Nobel Prize for Chemistry Goes to Inventors of Imaging Technique," 4 Oct. 2017

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