The World-wide Spread of X-ray Diffraction Methods

Abstract

In the foregoing chapters the development of centres and schools of X-ray diffraction has been described in some detail for the leading countries. Early work has, however, not been restricted to these countries, and the spread of the application of these methods to new countries and to new laboratories took place in the twenty years between the wars and continues today at an even increased rate. This is a natural development for a method of such general importance for problems in many sciences and in technology, and the present chapter can not and need not go into the often repetitive detail of the development in all countries.