Early days of X-ray crystallography / André Authier, Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés, Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-432) and indexes.

1. Significance of the discovery of X-ray diffraction -- 2. The various approaches to the concept of space lattice -- 3. The dual nature of light -- 4. Röntgen and the discovery of X-rays -- 5. The nature of X-rays : waves or corpuscles? -- 6. 1912 : the discovery of X-ray diffraction and the birth of X-ray analysis -- 7. 1913 : the first steps -- 8. The route to crystal structure determination -- 9. X-rays as a branch of optics -- 10. Early applications of X-ray crystallography -- 11. Unravelling the mystery of crystals : the forerunners -- 12. The birth and rise of the space-lattice concept.