Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who describes crystals or the manner of their formation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
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- noun a person skilled in
crystallography
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- noun a specialist in crystallography
Etymologies
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Examples
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My “decision” to become a crystallographer started when I chose my honours project advisor in my fourth year of university.
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Many have become household names, such as the brilliant crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, who famously won a Nobel prize in 1964, and whose whirling portrait by Maggi Hambling 1985 now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010
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Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), X-ray crystallographer whose work was important in determining the structure of DNA
Vote for the "most celebrated female scientist of all time" Peggy 2008
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Her tutor at Oxford was Nobel prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
World Leaders Should Understand Science Peggy 2008
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Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), crystallographer and first woman elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008
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Her tutor at Oxford was Nobel prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin.
Archive 2008-08-01 Peggy 2008
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Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971), crystallographer and first woman elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Vote for the "most celebrated female scientist of all time" Peggy 2008
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Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), X-ray crystallographer whose work was important in determining the structure of DNA
Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008
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I went in the spring of 1972 to work with Aaron Klug, who was not only a leading crystallographer, but also responsible for the application of
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Either that, or become a crystallographer and spend the rest of my life pursuing the answer.
ccfinlay: The Wikipedia Image of the Day ccfinlay 2007
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