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Carolina Henriette MacGillavry

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She finished her Master's degree cum laude on 16 March 1932, and continued her work as assistant of chemist A. Smits. She became a friend of
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on the subject, which she completed cum laude with Prof. AHW Aten on 27 January 1937. She then became assistant of
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MacGillavry (nicknamed "Mac") was born the second of six children in an intellectual family (her father was a
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that could be used in crystallography. The method uses the Harker–Kasper inequality, that was first
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In 1986, In the English-speaking world MacGillavry became famous for her book
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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In 1950 she became the first woman to be appointed to the
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and its use in crystallography. She also did research in
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at the University of Amsterdam and she retired in 1972.
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also grew interested in her work on the chemistry of
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that same year. Together with Bijvoet she researched
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Symmetry aspects of M. C. Escher's periodic drawings
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam
Chemist
crystallographer
diffraction
Doctoral advisor
Johannes Martin Bijvoet
Clara Brink Shoemaker
Philip Coppens
Amsterdam
chemist
crystallographer
diffraction
brain
surgeon
chemistry
University of Amsterdam
quantum mechanics
J. M. Bijvoet
PhD
thesis
A. E. van Arkel
Leiden
laboratory
electromagnetic
diffraction
inorganic chemistry

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