Paths of development of crystallography and its contemporary tasks

Abstract

(Report delivered on March 11, 1933, at a meeting of the departments of the petrographic-mineralogical cycle of sciences, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx.) The history of crystallography, its main trends, and recent achievements are presented in a reference and concise form. This basis serves to examine the problems of crystallography, which are largely solved in accordance with the demands of industry. Among the contemporary tasks of crystallography, several groups of problems can be distinguished: a group of physical problems linking the physics of phenomena with their geometry; a group of chemical problems; a group of problems related to physico-chemical phenomena; and crystal X-ray measurement (see the article).

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