Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Dec 21;51(52):12946-58. doi: 10.1002/anie.201206509. Epub 2012 Dec 4.
A new age dawned when 22-year-old William Lawrence Bragg realized that the observations of X-ray diffraction by a crystal can be interpreted very simply as arising from the reflection of the X-rays by planes of atoms in the crystal. In the 100 years since this insight X-ray diffraction has transformed chemistry, mineralogy, metallurgy, and, most recently, biology.
当 22 岁的威廉·劳伦斯·布拉格意识到晶体的 X 射线衍射的观察结果可以非常简单地解释为由晶体中原子平面反射 X 射线时，一个新时代开始了。自这一见解出现以来的 100 年里，X 射线衍射已经改变了化学、矿物学、冶金学，最近还改变了生物学。
