crystallography
noun
crys·tal·log·ra·phy ˌkri-stə-ˈlä-grə-fē 
: a science that deals with the forms and structures of crystals
crystallographer
ˌkri-stə-ˈlä-grə-fər
noun 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But Yanik does think the approach will be useful—especially given its relative affordability compared with other ways of monitoring proteins, such as x-ray crystallography. 
Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022 McCallum and colleagues employed two techniques to understand the structural-functional relationship of mutations in the Spike protein of BA.1: cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Data from x-ray crystallography and cryo–electron microscopy experiments can be difficult to interpret, Baek and others say, and having a model can help. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021 Moult says structural biologists have dreamed for decades that accurate computer models would one day augment extremely precise protein shapes derived from experimental methods such as x-ray crystallography. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021 Franklin was a brilliant scientist in her own right — a physical chemist — and rose to discover the structure of DNA through laborious investigation with X-ray crystallography. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 July 2021 Another technique, x-ray crystallography, has long been the gold standard for mapping individual atoms within a 3D protein structure. Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020 Yonath and Brian Kobilka won Nobel Prizes for using x-ray crystallography to understand cell structures that are vital targets for drug development. The Editors, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2013 One of her students took the first photo of DNA through X-ray crystallography. Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021 See More
Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022 McCallum and colleagues employed two techniques to understand the structural-functional relationship of mutations in the Spike protein of BA.1: cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022 Data from x-ray crystallography and cryo–electron microscopy experiments can be difficult to interpret, Baek and others say, and having a model can help. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021 Moult says structural biologists have dreamed for decades that accurate computer models would one day augment extremely precise protein shapes derived from experimental methods such as x-ray crystallography. Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021 Franklin was a brilliant scientist in her own right — a physical chemist — and rose to discover the structure of DNA through laborious investigation with X-ray crystallography. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 July 2021 Another technique, x-ray crystallography, has long been the gold standard for mapping individual atoms within a 3D protein structure. Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020 Yonath and Brian Kobilka won Nobel Prizes for using x-ray crystallography to understand cell structures that are vital targets for drug development. The Editors, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2013 One of her students took the first photo of DNA through X-ray crystallography. Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
crystallo- + -graphy (after French cristallographie or New Latin crystallographia)
First Known Use
1784, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
crystallography
noun
crys·tal·log·ra·phy ˌkris-tə-ˈläg-rə-fē
plural crystallographies
: a science that deals with the forms and structures of crystals see x-ray crystallography