Timelines of Crystallography - credits and further information
The idea of a project for the International Year of Crystallography 2014 that collected together interactive timelines illustrating different aspects of crystallography and structural science was first raised by Marvin Hackert at the IUCr Congress in Madrid, Spain, in 2011.
Material for the timelines presented here comes from the following sources.
| Nobel Prizes related to crystallography | 1900 - present | Information from the International Union of Crystallography web pages on crystallographic Nobel Prizes, and from the Nobel Institute. Individual photo credits on the IUCr information pages. |
| Man's fascination with crystals and crystallography | 3000 BC - present | Based on a presentation prepared by Rangana Warshamange and Anthony Linden to introduce university students to crystallography at The University of Zurich, Switzerland. |
| The Royal Institution Timeline of Crystallography | 1862 - present | Prepared by The Royal Institution, with support from the Science and Technologies Facilities Council, to celebrate the centenary of the Braggs' work on determining crystal structures by X-ray diffraction. |
| Geometric crystallography | 1640 - 1970 | Based on time maps, illustrations and and bibliography in Historical Atlas of Crystallography by J. Lima-de-Faria (1990). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. © International Union of Crystallography |
| Physical crystallography | 1669 - 1970 | Based on time maps, illustrations and and bibliography in Historical Atlas of Crystallography by J. Lima-de-Faria (1990). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. © International Union of Crystallography |
| Chemical crystallography | 1550 - 1970 | Based on time maps, illustrations and and bibliography in Historical Atlas of Crystallography by J. Lima-de-Faria (1990). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. © International Union of Crystallography |
| Structure determination | 1905 - 1970 | Based on time maps, illustrations and and bibliography in Historical Atlas of Crystallography by J. Lima-de-Faria (1990). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. © International Union of Crystallography |
| Crystallographic information and data | 1935 - present | Prepared by the International Union of Crystallography. Includes material from the online Book Exhibit Crystallography - Defining the Shape of the World, Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of X-ray Diffraction. Images Courtesy of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
Technical details
Timelines are implemented with the Timeline 2.3 SIMILE Widgets, an open-source spin-off using the BSD License from the SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) project at MIT, originally sponsored partially by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Use is also made of the "NH popup" code of Nicholas Hoening.
For some programming aspects of the presentation of multiple timelines we are indebted to David Hoare, IUCr.