X-ray crystallography timeline
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Updated: 5 Dec 2017
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Created byDeepti Sawal
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1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen
discovers X-rays1912 - Max von Laue
discovers X-ray diffraction1913 - W. H. Bragg and W. L.
Bragg establish Bragg's Law1914- Max von
Laue wins
Nobel Prize1915 - W.H Bragg and
W.L. Bragg
win Nobel Prize1929 - Kathleen Lonsdale
proves structure of benzene1962 - Watson & Crick win
Nobel Prize for discovery of
DNA structure by using X-ray
crystallography1952 - Fischer and Wolfgang Pfab
use X-ray diffraction to describe
structure of Ferrocene1971 - Protein Data Bank (pdb)
is created to visualise, store and
search protein structures.1936 - Peter Debye wins Nobel
Prize for his contribution in the
study of molecular structure and
explaining dipole moments2009 - Nobel Prize won by Yonath
et. al. for using crystallography
to determine structure of ribosome.
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