Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider (1891–1990), a refugee immigrant to Australia in 1938, was student of Nobel Prize-winning physicists, Einstein, Planck, and von Laue. She combined background physics, especially relativity theory, with philosophical focus on the nature possibilities knowledge. As well as working at University Sydney teach science students how recognise issues their subjects, she drove m...

The Nobel Committees have to follow the nominations submitted for a specific year. During the early phase of X-ray crystallography, a limited number of scientists were active. In 1914 Max von Laue and William Henry Bragg were both nominated and could have been awarded a joint Nobel Prize. However, a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, Allvar Gullstrand, was well aware of the activities i...

A new method for determination of the orientation matrix of Laue X-ray data is presented. The method is based on matching of the experimental patterns of central reciprocal lattice rows projected on a unit sphere centered on the origin of the reciprocal lattice with the corresponding pattern of a monochromatic data set on the same material. This technique is applied to the complete data set and...

Synchrotron radiation-based micro-Laue technique has showcased great application potentials in materials science study for its unprecedented crystal orientation and lattice strain/stress resolution. Here we report the updated progress development of on X-ray test beamline at Shanghai Radiation Facility. So far, 40 µm (h) × 50 (v) beam spot is routinely obtained, with convergent angle 0.2 mrad 0...

Yuji Hasegawa,1,2 Rudolf Loidl,1,3 Gerald Badurek,1 Katharina Durstberger-Rennhofer,1 Stephan Sponar,1 and Helmut Rauch1,3 1Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Stadionallee 2, A-1020 Wien, Austria 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan 3Institut Laue-Langevin, Boı̂te Postale 156, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France (Received 4 August 2009; publish...

Stranski-Laboratorium für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Institut für Chemie, Straße des 17. Juni 124, Sekr. TC7, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany, and Institute Laue L...

S. O. Diallo,1,* J. V. Pearce,2,1,† R. T. Azuah,3 J. W. Taylor,4 and H. R. Glyde1,‡ 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716-2593, USA 2Institut Laue-Langevin, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble, France 3NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8562, USA 4ISIS Spallation Neutron Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0Q...