D. W. J. Cruickshank

D. W. J. Cruickshank

British crystallographer

Died aged 80PiscesUnited Kingdom

Biography

Durward William John Cruickshank (7 March 1924 – 13 July 2007), often known as D. W. J. Cruickshank, was a British crystallographer whose work transformed the precision of determining molecular structures from X-ray crystal structure analysis. He developed the theoretical framework for anisotropic displacement parameters, also known as the thermal ellipsoid, for crystal structure determination in a series of papers published in 1956 in Acta Crystallographica.

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Notable works

  • The rôle of 3d-orbitals in π-bonds between (a) silicon, phosphorus, sulphur, or chlorine and (b) oxygen or nitrogen

Awards & honours (2)

  • Fellow of the Royal Society
  • The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize

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D. W. J. Cruickshank was born on March 5, 1927.
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