Fifty Years of X-ray Diffraction, edited by Paul Peter Ewald Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Edited by Paul Peter Ewald, credited as P. P. Ewald; the volume contains contributions by multiple authors. Published for the International Union of Crystallography in 1962 by N.V.A. Oosthoek’s Uitgeversmaatschappij, Utrecht. The International Union of Crystallography hosts the 1999 digitization; neither editorial credit nor institutional issuance is whole-book authorship.
Institutional reference by the International Union of Crystallography. Individual entries record their own revision dates; these do not establish first publication dates.
Entry in Online Dictionary of Crystallography by International Union of Crystallography. Institutional reference issued and hosted by the International Union of Crystallography; no individual byline is assigned. Last edited 11 December 2017; no original publication date is established.
Cited passages: Definition, Direct space, plane intercepts and primitive versus centered indexing; Definition, Reciprocal space, normal direction and inverse spacing. The entry uses reciprocal-length basis vectors; an angular reciprocal convention introduces a factor of .
The definition distinguishes general common-fixed-point symmetry from the lattice-preserving crystallographic subclass; the occurrence section discusses crystal, vector and molecular/site interpretations.