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Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath.
Ada Yonath
Israeli biochemist
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
British scientist
Meir Lahav
Meir Lahav
Israeli chemist
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician and crystallographer
Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
American crystallographer
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Max von Laue
German physicist
John Desmond Bernal
Irish physicist
Henry Edward Armstrong
British chemist
Georges Friedel
French crystallographer
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Clifford G. Shull
American physicist
Paul Peter Ewald
German physicist
Albert Wallace Hull
American physicist
Paul Niggli
Swiss mineralogist