Michael Woolfson
Michael Woolfson · Science & Medicine
Physicist who developed direct methods for solving crystal structures of molecules
1927, United Kingdom — 2019, United Kingdom
United Kingdom (London, York)
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Michael Mark Woolfson was a British theoretical physicist and crystallographer who developed 'direct methods' for solving the crystallographic phase problem, allowing molecular crystal structures to be determined from X-ray diffraction data alone. Software from his York laboratory, notably the MULTAN package, was used to solve roughly half of all crystal structures determined in the 1970s and 1980s. He was Jewish.
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Physicist who developed direct methods for solving crystal structures of molecules
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