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Vladimir Vand (1911-1968). Contributed, with Cochran and Crick, to the mathematical theory of diffraction by a helix, which was a significant step in the determination of the structure of DNA. Believed to be an early 1960s portrait taken at Pennsylvania State University around the time he left the Department of Physics and joined the Department of Mineral Sciences.

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early 1960s: Computational Crystallographers: Portrait
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