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Romain Rolland – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Perspectives: The parent trap
Perspectives
Lawrence Bragg might have been the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, but being part of a father-and-son team meant it was years before he received true recognition for his seminal work in X-ray crystallography. Receiving a Nobel Prize at the tender age of 25 can be a mixed blessing, especially if your fellow recipient happens…
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Speed read: Crystal patterns made plane and simple
Speed read
When Max von Laue showed that X-rays are diffracted in crystals and form characteristic patterns on photographic film, he proved in a single experiment that X-rays are wave-like in nature, and that crystals have a lattice-like structure. What wasn’t clear was whether the structure of the crystal and the wavelength of X-rays had any influence…
moreRomain Rolland – Bibliography
Bibliography
Selected works in French Les origines du théâtre lyrique moderne : histoire de l’opéra en Europe avant Lully et Scarlatti. – Paris: A. Fontemoing, 1894 Aërt. – Paris: Cahiers de la Quinzaine, 1898 Les loups. – Paris: Georges Bellais, 1898 Le triomphe de la raison. – Paris: Revue d’Art Dramatique, 1899 Danton. – Paris: Revue…
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