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PROGRESS OF X-RAY ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND FIBRE STRUCTURES

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FOR the mornings of November 9 and 10 of the Röntgen Celebrations, the Institute of Physics arranged two sessions held at the Royal Institution and devoted to a series of short papers on progress and prospects in X-ray structure analysis. J. M. Robertson and Dorothy Crowfoot (Mrs. Hodgkin) spoke on organic crystals, and W. T. Astbury on fibre structures ; and since their remarks link up together, it is convenient to summarize them in the order just given.

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ASTBURY, W. PROGRESS OF X-RAY ANALYSIS OF ORGANIC AND FIBRE STRUCTURES. Nature 157, 121–124 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157121a0

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