Arthur Lindo Patterson

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1902 – 1966

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Who was Arthur Lindo Patterson?

Arthur Lindo Patterson was a pioneering British X-ray crystallographer. Patterson was born to British parents in New Zealand in 1902. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Montreal, Canada and later to London, England. In 1920 Patterson moved to Canada for college at McGill University, Montreal. Firstly he concentrated on Mathematics and but then changed his major to Physics. He received his bachelor's degree in 1923 and a master's in 1924. His master's thesis was on the production of hard X-rays by interaction of radium β rays with solids.

From 1924 to 1926 he worked in London in the laboratory of W. H. Bragg, where he learnt the art of crystal structure analysis.

In 1926 Patterson moved to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-institut of Fibrous Materials Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem, where he worked on the X-ray crystallography of cellulose fibres. In Berlin he had the fortune to meet the scientific elite of the time, which included Max von Laue, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Walther Nernst, Hans Bethe, Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Peter Pringsheim.

In 1927 he returned to McGill, finishing his work for the Ph.D. degree in 1928.

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Born
Jul 23, 1902
Nelson
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Lived in
  • Canada
Died
Nov 6, 1966
Philadelphia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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