Sometimes I wonder what being a crystallographer in this day and age is like
November 8, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Sometimes I wonder what being a crystallographer in this day and age is like
🪔Happy Diwali from Lives in Chemistry, the series of autobiographies of eminent chemists. The most recent book appeared as an e-book in time for the #Diwali celebrations. Gautam Desiraju, a world-renowned Indian chemist and #crystallographer, wrote it in a captivating style l-i-c.org/gautam-r-des...
November 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
🪔Happy Diwali from Lives in Chemistry, the series of autobiographies of eminent chemists. The most recent book appeared as an e-book in time for the #Diwali celebrations. Gautam Desiraju, a world-renowned Indian chemist and #crystallographer, wrote it in a captivating style l-i-c.org/gautam-r-des...
In the next edition of #CondensedMatterPioneers, we highlight the career of Helen Megaw, an Irish crystallographer who established the perovskite structure as a cornerstone of the physics of ferroelectrics. 🧵
October 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
In the next edition of #CondensedMatterPioneers, we highlight the career of Helen Megaw, an Irish crystallographer who established the perovskite structure as a cornerstone of the physics of ferroelectrics. 🧵
After a year in Vienna with Hermann Mark and a year in Oxford with Francis Simon, she spent several years as a schoolteacher before joining Philips Lamps in Mitcham as an industrial crystallographer in 1943.
October 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
After a year in Vienna with Hermann Mark and a year in Oxford with Francis Simon, she spent several years as a schoolteacher before joining Philips Lamps in Mitcham as an industrial crystallographer in 1943.
Born in Dublin in 1907, Megaw developed an interest in crystallography. After spending a year at Queen's University Belfast, she moved to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1926. Taking mineralogy as her third experimental subject helped her to become a crystallographer.
October 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Born in Dublin in 1907, Megaw developed an interest in crystallography. After spending a year at Queen's University Belfast, she moved to Girton College, Cambridge, in 1926. Taking mineralogy as her third experimental subject helped her to become a crystallographer.
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October 23, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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A new research article challenges the claim that Rosalind Franklin failed to see the significance of “Photograph 51” for the helical structure of DNA. Instead, they argue that she had used an earlier photograph (49) to make measurements of the DNA helix.
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
Journal of the History of Biology - This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the...
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October 20, 2026 at 10:45 PM
A new research article challenges the claim that Rosalind Franklin failed to see the significance of “Photograph 51” for the helical structure of DNA. Instead, they argue that she had used an earlier photograph (49) to make measurements of the DNA helix.
That’s a crystallographer word and you are studying mathematics
October 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
That’s a crystallographer word and you are studying mathematics
Somewhere an X-ray crystallographer is screaming.
October 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Somewhere an X-ray crystallographer is screaming.
“Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer at King’s College London (KCL), had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.” […]
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October 17, 2026 at 9:17 PM
“Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer at King’s College London (KCL), had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson’s 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone.” […]
Guardian obituary for biochemist and crystallographer Ada Yonath, née Lifshitz (1939-2026) who won a Nobel Prize for mapping the ribosome #chemsky 🧪
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Ada Yonath obituary
Nobel prizewinning biochemist who succeeded against the odds in mapping the ribosome
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October 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Guardian obituary for biochemist and crystallographer Ada Yonath, née Lifshitz (1939-2026) who won a Nobel Prize for mapping the ribosome #chemsky 🧪
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
Rosalind did certainly know what she had seen: the DNA helix.
Rosalind did certainly know what she had seen: the DNA helix.
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
Journal of the History of Biology - This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the...
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October 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
Rosalind did certainly know what she had seen: the DNA helix.
Rosalind did certainly know what she had seen: the DNA helix.
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
Animals need cobalt for our metabolism; we get it as vitamin B12. So, for #printerSolstice2425 prompt cobalt I made a #linocut of English chemist & x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (née Crowfoot, 1910-1994), 🧪👩🏼🔬🐡 #histsci who won the Nobel Prize in #chemistry for her models of 🧵
October 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 –1958), 🧪#WomenInSTEM chemist & crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to carbon & virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of 20th century. #sciart 1/n
October 13, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪🐡👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971)
🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) 🐡🎢🧪👩🏼🔬 #histsci who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene. Her husband said, “Before prison it might
October 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Chemist and x-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971)
🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
🧪👩🏼🔬🐡🎢 #histsci #ald26 #AdaLovelaceDay
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#Clerkenwell Community Choir & UC8 Singers.
Hear both #choirs & #singer Frances Lynch
@conwayhall 15th Oct for The Peaceful #Crystallographer
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#Clerkenwell Community Choir & UC8 Singers.
Hear both #choirs & #singer Frances Lynch
@conwayhall 15th Oct for The Peaceful #Crystallographer
@theuc8 @uclmusicsociety #Festivals
@artsprofessional.co.uk #Music #BSL #royalsociety
#WhatsOn #LondonLife #BloomsburyFestival
October 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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#Clerkenwell Community Choir & UC8 Singers.
Hear both #choirs & #singer Frances Lynch
@conwayhall 15th Oct for The Peaceful #Crystallographer
@theuc8 @uclmusicsociety #Festivals
@artsprofessional.co.uk #Music #BSL #royalsociety
#WhatsOn #LondonLife #BloomsburyFestival
#Clerkenwell Community Choir & UC8 Singers.
Hear both #choirs & #singer Frances Lynch
@conwayhall 15th Oct for The Peaceful #Crystallographer
@theuc8 @uclmusicsociety #Festivals
@artsprofessional.co.uk #Music #BSL #royalsociety
#WhatsOn #LondonLife #BloomsburyFestival
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
#RosalindFranklin #DNA #DoubleHelix #discovery #history #ScienceHistory
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#RosalindFranklin #DNA #DoubleHelix #discovery #history #ScienceHistory
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
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October 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51
#RosalindFranklin #DNA #DoubleHelix #discovery #history #ScienceHistory
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#RosalindFranklin #DNA #DoubleHelix #discovery #history #ScienceHistory
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?
Protein crystallographer: the electron density was very poor so I did not model that part.
Protein crystallographer: the electron density was very poor so I did not model that part.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?
Physical Chemist: that excited state has a very short lifetime.
Physical Chemist: that excited state has a very short lifetime.
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV?
Genomicist: it's still quite difficult and resource-intensive to assemble repetitive regions.
Genomicist: it's still quite difficult and resource-intensive to assemble repetitive regions.
October 12, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV?
Protein crystallographer: the electron density was very poor so I did not model that part.
Protein crystallographer: the electron density was very poor so I did not model that part.
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The Peaceful Crystallographer – and Other Songs – Conway Hall
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October 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome
Nobel laureate persisted despite widespread derision and revolutionized structural biology by protecting fragile crystals.
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October 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AND FURTHERMORE FUCK JAMES WATSON.
The opening two sentences of the abstract just made me cry.
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The opening two sentences of the abstract just made me cry.
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Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
link.springer.com
October 8, 2026 at 4:57 PM
AND FURTHERMORE FUCK JAMES WATSON.
The opening two sentences of the abstract just made me cry.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The opening two sentences of the abstract just made me cry.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A fascinating article proving that Rosalind Franklin knew full well what she was seeing in image 51. And that James Watson is a sack of shit. Well, the article doesn't prove that. He proved that himself. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology
This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...
link.springer.com
October 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A fascinating article proving that Rosalind Franklin knew full well what she was seeing in image 51. And that James Watson is a sack of shit. Well, the article doesn't prove that. He proved that himself. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Rosalind Elsie Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...
October 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Rosalind Elsie Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...