Crystal Chemistry and Physics

The structure of sodium chloride determined by the Braggs in 1913 was deeply disturbing to many chemists. In a letter to Nature in 1927, Lawrence Bragg made 

There are a number of grim anecdotes about him in wartime thus, at that time he always carried a cyanide capsule for the eventuality of his capture, and when a fellow professor asked him to find him one too, he responded This poison is for professors of chemistry only. You, as a professor of mechanics, will have to use the rope . 

For our purposes, the best of the various memoirs of Goldschmidt are a lecture by the British crystallographer and polymath John Desmond Bernal (Bernal 1949), 

Together with the structural principles established by the Bragg school concerning the many types of silicates, Goldschmidt s ideas were taken further by Linus Pauling in California to establish the modern science of crystal chemistry. A good early overview of the whole field can be found in a book by Evans (1939, 1964). 

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W. B. Pearson, The Crystal Chemistry and Physics of Metals and Alloys, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1972, p. 280. 

Pearson, W. B. The crystal chemistry and physics of metals and alloys. New York-London-Sydney-Toronto Wiley-Interscience 1972. 

Codings PJ, Hird M (1997) Introduction to liquid crystals chemistry and physics. Taylor and Francis, London... 

Source F.S. Galasso, Structure and Properties of Inorganic Solids, Pergamon, Oxford, 1970, p. 143.) (Source W.P. Pearson, The Crystal Chemistry and Physics of Metals and Alloys, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1972, p. 531.)... 

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