Boletim Eletrônico Nº 1126 .: Eventos :.

In celebration of the International Year of Crystallography

In the period of 12 to 15 October 2014, in Fortaleza/CE during the Symposium will celebrate 100 years of crystallography. The symposium will be the first event scientific crystallography to be held in the Northeast and brings together professionals and students working in the area of materials characterization by X-ray diffraction, electrons and neutrons, as well as other states of Brazil, involving all the major areas of knowledge that use diffraction techniques.

The theme of the symposium, 100 Years of crystallography, due to the fact that the year 2014 was chosen by the International Union of Crystallography - IUCr, as the International Year of Crystallography (see page http://www.iycr2014.org /) in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel physics prize to Max von Laue, in 1914, due to his work on x-ray diffraction in crystals. The experiment performed by two collaborators (W. Friedrich and P. Knipping) in crystal Cu sulfate, idealized by von Laue, opened the way for Sir William and Sir Laurence Bragg would determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals. In a short time this acquired knowledge revolutionized besides physics and chemistry of the solid state, microbiology with the discovery of DNA structure, the development of computers and new materials, and nowadays chemical drugs for prolonging human life.

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Fonte: Jose Marcos Sasaki (UFC)