Contents Bragg Centennial Special Issue

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:31:35 +0000
From: "IUCr Journals"
Subject: Bragg centennial special issue
Bragg centennial - celebrating 100 years of X-ray crystallography
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When William Lawrence Bragg outlined the foundations of X-ray crystallography to the Cambridge Philosophical Society in late 1912, he set a ball rolling that is still gathering speed today. Commemorating this landmark scientific event, this special issue of Acta Crystallographica Section A contains a collection of papers contributed by speakers at the Bragg Centennial Symposium held in Adelaide in December 2012.

This symposium explored some of the historical context and personal links to the work of Lawrence Bragg and his father, William Henry Bragg, as well as featuring some of the broader scientific and social impact of their achievements.

We have made these articles freely available and hope you enjoy reading this fascinating and affectionate tribute to one of the founding fathers of the IUCr and Acta Crystallographica.

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 1-4 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312048490]
Celebrating 100 years of X-ray crystallography
S. W. Wilkins

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 5-7 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312047514]
A tribute to W. L. Bragg by his younger daughter
P. Thomson
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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 8-9 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312046879]
Sir Lawrence Bragg
M. F. Perutz

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 10-15 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312031133]
Background to the Nobel Prize to the Braggs
A. Liljas
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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 16-24 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312034356]
Lawrence Bragg's interest in the deformation of metals and 1950-1953
in the Cavendish - a worm's-eye view
A. Kelly
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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 25-33 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312046296]
Lawrence Bragg, microdiffraction and X-ray lasers
J. C. H. Spence
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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 34-36 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312042924]
The Bragg legacy: early days in macromolecular crystallography
B. W. Matthews

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 37-44 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312036021]
The early development of neutron diffraction: science in the wings of the Manhattan Project
T. E. Mason, T. J. Gawne, S. E. Nagler, M. B. Nestor and J. M. Carpenter

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 45-50 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312047587]
The significance of Bragg's law in electron diffraction and microscopy,
and Bragg's second law
C. J. Humphreys

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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 51-59 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312050453]
Evolution of diffraction methods for solving crystal structures
W. A. Hendrickson
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Acta Cryst. (2013). A69, 60-62 [doi:10.1107/S0108767312050441]
Early days in drug discovery by crystallography - personal recollections
P. M. Colman

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