Herbert Hauptman

Herbert Hauptman (1989) - A New Minimal Principle in X-ray Crystallography

The mathematician Herbert Hauptman took part in 5 consecutive Lindau Chemistry Meetings, but only gave lectures at the first four. These lectures all concern the so-called phase problem of X-ray crystallography, the problem on which Hauptman had worked since around 1950, partly together with the physical chemist Jerome Karle