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In May 1999, I was visiting the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and on that occasion, I recorded a conversation with Richard E. Marsh (1922‒2017). It was during the decade when I was interviewing famous scientists. Many of my interviews appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer, a short-lived magazine about the culture of chemistry, and in the six-volume Candid Science interviews collection.
A Unicam rotating crystal camera pushed up against an X-ray window. This type of camera was used by Raymond Gosling at Kings College in London to obtain the first clear DNA photographs for Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin.
Editorial

Editorial

Mike Glazer
Figure 1. Dextrotatory structure of alpha quartz superimposed over a conoscopic image of Airy's spiral [from Geday & Glazer (2002)].

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IUCr Activities

Early Career Scientists Division

It is a privilege and a pleasure to serve the vibrant community of early career scientists as part of the newly formed Early Career Scientists Division (ECSD) of the IUCr.

Articles from the journals

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Editorial

IUCrJ on passing its tenth anniversary and entering its second decade: progress, current status and prospects for the future

 

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Editorial

Journal of Applied Crystallography welcomes eight new Co-editors

Janos Hajdu, Garry J. McIntyre and Flora Meilleur


Figure 1. Our new Co-editors René Guinebretière, James Harper, Venkatesha Hathwar, Karolina Jurkiewicz, Thomas Lane, Adrian Mancuso, Florian Meneau and Katherine Page.

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Commentary

On symmetries of higher-order elastic constants

J. D. Clayton

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Commentary

A milestone for the solution to the lattice sphere covering problem in dimension n = 6

Frank Vallentin

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IUCr Journals News

30 years of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation and synchrotron science

S. Samar Hasnain

Figure 1. Sine at the IUCr Congress in 2008, the year she was elected as President of the IUCr.
Obituary

Sine Ydun Larsen (1943–2025)

Sven Lidin, Malcolm J. Cooper, Itziar Echeverria, Montserrat Soler Lopez, Francesco Sette, Pernille Harris and Leila Lo Leggio

Rajagopala Chidambaram
Obituary

Rajagopala Chidambaram (1936–2025)

Shekhar C. Mande and Tej P. Singh

Rajagopala Chidambaram, one of the most distinguished crystallographers of our era, and an outstanding leader of science in India, passed away on the 4th January 2025.

Peter Main
Obituary

Peter Main (1939–2024)

Eleanor Dodson and Kathryn Cowtan

IUCr Activities

Compilation of 2024 IUCr Crystal Growing Competition winning entries.
Outreach

Winners of the 2024 IUCr Crystal Growing Competition

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 IUCr Crystal Growing Competition.

From the Community

The 11th March 2025 Virtual Workshop uses the CSD Python API.
Notices

CCDC news

Ana Machado

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Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

Crystallographic Fragment Screening Workshop: Advancing Structural Biology and Drug Discovery at the RAU Satellite Event

Maria Cristina Nonato Uwe Müller, Manfred S. Weiss, Andrey Fabricio Ziem Nascimento

A group photo taken at the entrance of Arcrea Himeji.
Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

The 13th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2024)

Yoshiharu Sakurai, Alfred Baron

Official event picture taken in the blue room at Montevideo's Municipal Building Conference Center.
Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

The VI Latin American Crystallographic Association Meeting

The VI Latin American Crystallographic Association Meeting (LACA) and its satellite events took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, last September.

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Meeting Report (IUCr supported)

The 8th European Conference on Crystal Growth (ECCG8)

The 8th European Conference on Crystal Growth (ECCG8) was organized by the Institute of High-Pressure Physics, the Physics Faculty of Warsaw University, Ensemble3 and the Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PTWK). The event occurred in Warsaw from 21st to 25th July 2024.

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Meeting Report

2024 Meeting of the Crystallographic Society of Japan

Hiroki OkuderaAyana Sato-Tomita Kotaro Fujii

People and History

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Feature article

Linus Pauling, Robert Corey, Richard Marsh, and other Caltech Crystallographers: a 1999 Conversation with Richard E. Marsh

In May 1999, I was visiting the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and on that occasion, I recorded a conversation with Richard E. Marsh (1922‒2017). It was during the decade when I was interviewing famous scientists. Many of my interviews appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer, a short-lived magazine about the culture of chemistry, and in the six-volume Candid Science interviews collection.