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Best books to learn Crystallography, in order

Crystallography is the discipline that turned a pattern of spots on a film into the atomic coordinates of a molecule, and it has produced more Nobel prizes than almost any other technique.

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Best Books on Crystallography and X-ray Diffraction

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Popular crystallography books

Crystallography made crystal clearGale Rhodes · 1993
Crystal structure analysisJenny Pickworth Glusker · 1972
The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography)Christopher Hammond · 2001
Fundamentals of crystallographyCarmelo Giacovazzo · 1992
CrystallographyA. M. Glazer · 2016
Symmetry relationships between crystal structuresUlrich Müller · 2013

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Frequently asked questions

How should I approach learning crystallography?
Crystallography is the discipline that turned a pattern of spots on a film into the atomic coordinates of a molecule, and it has produced more Nobel prizes than almost any other technique.
What's a good book to start crystallography with?
A strong starting point is Crystallography made crystal clear by Gale Rhodes. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.

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