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The work briefly considers the historical development of crystallography from a “servant of mineralogy” to a basis of the modern natural sciences, which became possible thanks to the discovery, in 1912, of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals and X-ray structural analysis with the subsequent rapid accumulation of structural knowledge in chemistry and other sciences.
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Original Russian Text © 2014 S. F. Solodovnikov.
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Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 55, Supplement 1, pp. S5–S13, 2014.
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Solodovnikov, S.F. Universality of crystallography. J Struct Chem 55, 1191–1199 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022476614070014
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