David Sayre
Deceased Person
1924 – 2012
Who was David Sayre?
David Sayre was an American scientist, credited with the early development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy. While working at IBM he was part of the initial team of ten programmers who created FORTRAN, and later suggested the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates.
The International Union of Crystallography awarded Sayre the Ewald Prize in 2008 for the "unique breadth of his contributions to crystallography, which range from seminal contributions to the solving of the phase problem to the complex physics of imaging generic objects by X-ray diffraction and microscopy".
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- Born
- Mar 2, 1924
New York City - Education
- Yale University
- Died
- Feb 23, 2012
Ashland
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on July 23, 2013
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