Pre-1962

This extract from 50 Years of X-ray Diffraction, edited by P. P. Ewald and published in 1962, recounts the early development of crystallography in this region.

At the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth X-ray crystal analysis was from its beginning (1948) in the hands of the chemists. G. M. J. Schmidt in particular studied the effects of 'molecular overcrowding' on the structures of organic crystals. J. Gillis at the same institute is interested in the mathematical and computational problems of crystal structure analysis.

In the Physics Department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Prof. E. Alexander) problems of X-ray optics and spectroscopy are being studied. Further laboratories using X-ray diffraction are those of the Atomic Energy Commission (governmental) and of Tadir, Ltd. (industrial).

First published for the International Union of Crystallography 1962 by N.V.A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Digitised 1999 for the IUCr XVIII Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
© 1962, 1999 International Union of Crystallography