crystallographern.
/ˌkrɪstəˈlɒɡrəfə/, /ˌkrɪstlˈɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ˌkrɪstəˈlɑɡrəfər/ An expert or specialist in crystallography.X-ray crystallographer: see X-ray n. and adj. Compounds 2b.
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crystallographer1788
crystallographist1794
crystallogist1811
1788 Crit. Rev. Jan. 7 The latest crystallographers are not mentioned.
1835 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 7 343 The molecules have necessarily the form of a polyhedron... These polyhedral forms are those called by crystallographers primitive forms.
1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 8 [A crystal] is bounded by flat surfaces..called by crystallographers its faces.
1936 L. R. Van Wert Introd. Physical Metall. ii. 23 Crystallographers distinguish six distinct crystal types.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. vi. 227 The great French crystallographer André Guinier..wished to determine the concentration of the pre-precipitation zones in age-hardened alloys.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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