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Durward Cruickshank FRS 1979
born 7 March 1924 - dies 15 July 2007
Obituaries published in:
- Royal Society news 17 July 2007
- The Daily Telegraph 17 July 2007 page 22
- CCP4 17 July 2007
- The Independent 28 July 2007
- 'The Times' page 64 9 August 2007
He was a crystallographer who pioneered the use of computers in structural analysis. He joined E. G. Cox's chemical crystallography group at Leeds University in 1946. He published extensively in Acta Crystallographica from 1948 onwards on topics in crystal structure refinement.
From 1962 to 1967, he was Joseph Black Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow University. In 1967, he moved to UMIST. Since retirement, he has helped in the revival of the Laue method and latterly has been working on protein structure precision.
He was an Editor of the 1992 IUCr Memorial Volume for Paul Ewald. He was IUCr Treasurer 1966-1972 and General Secretary 1970-1972. Vice president 1983 - 1985 of the British Crystallographic Association. Winner of the 1st Dorothy Hodgkin Prize of the British Crystallographic Association in 1991 Further information can be found on the website of the British Crystallographic Association.
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