Lars Vegard:key communicator and pioneer crystallographer

Abstract

The Norwegian physicist Lars Vegard studied with William H. Bragg in Leeds and then with Wilhelm Wien in Würzburg. There, in 1912, he heard a lecture by Max Laue describing the first X-ray diffraction experiments and took accurate notes which he promptly sent to Bragg. Although now remembered mainly for his work on the physics of the aurora borealis, Vegard also did important pioneering work in three areas of crystallography. He derived chemical insight from a series of related crystal structures that he determined, Vegard's Law relates the unit-cell dimensions of mixed crystals to those of the pure components, and he determined some of the first crystal structures of gases solidified at cryogenic temperatures.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0889311X.2013.838674
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Pharmacy School
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Crystallography Reviews on 01/10/13, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0889311X.2013.838674
Uncontrolled Keywords: Lars Vegard,low-temperature crystallography,mixed crystals,Vegard's Law,Chemistry(all),Materials Science(all),Condensed Matter Physics,Biochemistry,Structural Biology
Publication ISSN: 1476-3508
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2024 08:04
Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2015 16:00
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Published Date: 2014-01-02
Published Online Date: 2013-10-01
Authors: Schwalbe, Carl H.

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