Forty years of crystallography
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Abstract
Reflecting on the state of crystallography as I found it 40 years ago, and comparing it with the present, I find that its transformation during this period is almost deeper than of any other science. The closeness of crystallography and chemistry seems natural: both belong to sciences of an intermediate nature, situated between the exact sciences, the study of which is entirely reduced to the application of mathematical methods, and the descriptive sciences, where mathematical methods are not applied at all. If we compare the role of mathematics in chemistry and in crystallography 40 years ago and now, we will, of course, see that the latter has undergone a much greater transformation.
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Geology
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None
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