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It has been more than 100 years since the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals. The evolution of this technique has transformed our understanding of Nature very profoundly. In India, the early proponents of this area of research were Kedareshwar Banerjee, A R Verma, S Ramaseshan and G N Ramachandran, etc. In this article, contributions of some of them are highlighted.
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Shekhar Mande is the Director of the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune. He has previously worked at the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh and the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. His research interests include structure-function properties in proteins and complex biological assemblies.
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Mande, S. Early developments in crystallography. Reson 19, 1077–1086 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-014-0133-8
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