This book is published to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography 2014, as proclaimed by the United Nations. The year has been chosen as the International Year of Crystallographic since it was 100 years ago that the first Nobel Prize was awarded for crystallographic observations to Max von Laue. Just a year later, Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, father and son, won their prize for showing the possibility of determining atomic positions in crystals.This book describes the lives and works of 33 Nobel Laureates starting with Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1901) and...

The book illustrates the fascinating world of the different forms of water - from ice and snow to liquid water.