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Louis Pasteur started his career on #crystallography, then he was interested in #fermentation and #microbes. In 1859 he proved that spontaneous generation theory was wrong and he, and his collaborators, developed #vaccines against anthrax and rabies
@institutpasteur
Max von Laue, German physicist who received the 1914 #NobelPrize in #Physics for his research into X-ray crystallography, is our #ScientistOfTheDay.
(Contrary to this clerihew, we can not confirm that he ever owned a Chihuahua...)
https://t.co/LaqT1EScWk
#histSTM
Born #OTD 1910: biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, pioneer of X-ray #crystallography, won the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry in 1964 for her work in establishing the structure of vitamin B12 & #penicillin. In 1969, she solved the 3D shape of the #insulin molecule. #WomenInStem