Crystallography, Group Theory, Etymology, and 'Pataphysics

摘要

The United Nations has declared 2014 to be the International Year of Crystallography, 2012 was the centenary year of the discovery of X-ray diffraction,1 and two recent chemistry Nobel prizes involved crystallography: Dan Shechtman in 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals (see footnotes 36-37), and Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka in 2012 in biocrystallography.