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THREE years ago, Sir Gowland Hopkins in his presidential address spoke with admiration of the work of the organic chemist and in particular of the “emergence of power to grasp the architecture of complex invisible entities such as organic molecules and the ability to construct them at will”. He told how under modern methods of investigation the picture which the chemist had formed of the invisible molecule had actually taken shape. His picture-making had been amply justified. His stereometry was not, as some thinkers had maintained, to be swept away in favour of a mathematical symbolism.
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Bragg, W. Progress in the Technique of Crystal Analysis. Nature 138, 953–954 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138953a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138953a0