X-ray crystallography timeline

1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays

1912 - Max von Laue discovers X-ray diffraction

1913 - W. H. Bragg and W. L. Bragg establish Bragg's Law

1914- Max von Laue wins Nobel Prize

1915 - W.H Bragg and W.L. Bragg win Nobel Prize

1929 - Kathleen Lonsdale proves structure of benzene

1962 - Watson & Crick win Nobel Prize for discovery of DNA structure by using X-ray crystallography

1952 - Fischer and Wolfgang Pfab use X-ray diffraction to describe structure of Ferrocene

1971 - 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 moments

2009 - Nobel Prize won by Yonath et. al. for using crystallography to determine structure of ribosome.