Jan 012014
The UN designated International Year of Crystallography 2014 (IYCr2014) commemorates not only the centennial of X-ray diffraction, which allowed the detailed study of crystalline material, but also the 50th anniversary of the Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize and the 400th anniversary of Kepler’s observation in 1611 of the symmetrical form of ice crystals, which began the wider study of the role of symmetry in matter.
More information is available on the International Union of Crystallography’s IYCr site, http://www.iycr2014.org and the British Crystallographic Association’s Outreach and Education site: http://learn.crystallography.org.uk/