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THE first General Assembly and Congress of the recently formed International Union of Crystallography was held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., during July 28–August 3 and was attended by some 350 crystallographers of ten nations. In recognition of his epoch-making contribution to the modern development of the subject, Prof. M. von Laue (Germany) was unanimously elected honorary president of the Union. Officers were elected as follows : President, Sir Lawrence Bragg (Great Britain) ; Vice-Presidents, A. Westgren (Sweden), R. W. G. Wyckoff (United States) ; General Secretary, R. C. Evans (Crystallographic Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) ; other members of the Executive Committee are M. J. Buerger (United States), P. P. Ewald (Great Britain), A. L. Patterson (United States), J. Wyart (France). Statutes and by laws of the Union were adopted, and the adhesion of Great Britain, the United States, Canada and Norway was recognized. Commissions of the Union were established as follows : Acta Crystallographica, International Tables, Structure Reports, Crystallographic Apparatus, Nomenclature, Crystallographic Data. Crystallographers throughout the world interested in the work of any of these Commissions are invited to make contact with them through the General Secretary. The second General Assembly and Congress will be held in Europe during the summer of 1951.
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International Union of Crystallography. Nature 162, 365–366 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162365g0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162365g0