Mapping the teaching of crystallography in French universities

Letter from the president

A magnificent conference to bring my presidency to a close.

Commentary

In 2014 Werner Kühlbrandt wrote a Perspective entitled The Resolution Revolution (Kühlbrandt, 2014) about how we were entering a new era in molecular biology where structures of macromolecular complexes could now be determined at near-atomic resolution by electron cry

Meeting Report

Abstract

Feature article

40 years ago, a new device appeared that made low-temperature X-ray crystallography possible with ease. I am, of course, referring to the so-called “Cryostream”.

Feature article

Feature article

In recent years, the presence of crystallography in higher education curricula in France has been diminishing.

Feature article

In our previous essay on cubic packings of spheres (Dauter & Jaskolski, 2026), we introduced the loosest Heesch-Laves (HL, 1933) packing and analyzed its symmetry.

Feature article

"Is Peace Possible?" was the question posed by Kathleen Lonsdale in her 1957 book [1].

Obituary

It is with great sadness that the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) shares the passing of longtime ACA member Dr. Ian David Brown, who died peacefully on June 29, 2026, at the age of 94.

Obituary

It is with great sadness that I share the news that Robert Day Shannon passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, May 31, at the age of 90, with his family at his side.

Outreach

Commission news

27^th June – 2^nd July 2027, AGH University of Kraków, Poland

Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

The 4^th High-Pressure Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Summer School was held at the James Clerk Maxwell Building of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland), from July 6^th to July 10^th 2026 (

Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

Education is integral to scientific work, so the organization of scientific schools is crucial.

Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

Quantum crystallography is a relatively new interdisciplinary field that combines quantum mechanics with crystallographic methods to determine and interpret the electronic structure of materials from diffraction data.

Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

After four Small Molecule Crystallography Schools organized by the Crystallography, Solid State and Materials Chemistry Laboratory at Facultad de Química (FQ), Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (1994, 2014, 2016 and 2018), we decided