crystallographer
- noun
- /ˌkrɪstəlˈɒɡrəfə/
- Specialized
- As a crystallographer, she utilized X-ray diffraction to determine the precise arrangement of atoms in the crystal.
- allow crystallographers
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Examples
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From those profiles, a crystallographer can extract relative structure-factor phases, called triplet phases, using recently developed phase-sensitive x-ray diffraction theories.
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Indeed, the output from macromolecular crystallographers has accelerated during the 1990s.
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Certainly, crystallographers will not run out of subject material anytime soon.
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Over the past century, crystallographers have developed powerful techniques for recovering phase information.
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Nowadays, crystallographers can select from a menu of techniques, sometimes in combination.
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Improvements in modern direct methods and other algorithms have allowed crystallographers to find large numbers of anomalous atom sites in large selenoprotein structures.
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Recombinant expression techniques also add to the crystallographers' repertoire through the designed incorporation of phasing labels.
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Several techniques, well established and newly developed, allow crystallographers to reconstruct large molecular structures after recovering the phases that are lost in X-ray diffraction patterns.
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Nearly all pharmaceutical companies now employ crystallographers in structure-based drug design efforts, and some biotechnology companies use x-ray structures in the engineering of macromolecules with designed properties.
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Among the mathematical techniques available to crystallographers are ab initio direct methods, including those that won Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
crystallographer = crystallography (semi-transparent) = crystal + graphy + er
The agent noun is regular, but the specialist base word 'crystallography' may not be familiar to many learners.
Etymology
Crystallographer joins crystal 'a clear, hard mineral', -graph 'to record' like in photograph, and -er 'a person', so a crystallographer is a person who records or studies crystals and how their parts are arranged, often using X-rays to see their inner structure.