Article ID: CBB000932512

Interests and Instrument: A Micro-History of Object Wh.3469 (X-Ray Powder Diffraction Camera, ca. 1940) (2009)

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Scheffler, Robin Wolfe (Author)


Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 40
Pages: 396--404


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: On Scientific Instruments
Language: English

This paper presents a micro-history of an object in the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science (accession no. Wh.3469), with an emphasis on how Wh.3469 reflects a hybrid of two different interwar British X-ray crystallographic communities, namely those based in WL Bragg's physics laboratory at the Victoria University of Manchester and the Crystallographic Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. It explores connections between Wh.3469's final design and construction and the different interests each community had in X-ray crystallography.

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Authors & Contributors
Jenkin, John G.
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Thomas, Sir John Meurig
Snyder, Laura J.
Smith, Pamela Jane
Perutz, M. F.
Concepts
Physics
X-ray crystallography
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Biographies
X-rays
Chemistry
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Institutions
Cambridge University
Royal Institution of Great Britain
Oxford University
University of Manchester
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