Fourier Transforms and X-Ray Diffraction

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By H. Lipson and G. A. Taylor London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd. Pp. vii + 76. Price 18s. 6d. Although X-ray crystallographic techniques are now used in a wide variety of contexts and attract recruits with all sorts of backgrounds, yet it remains as true to-day as it was in 1913 that both the experimental techniques and the associated principles belong to physics. This slim monograph is intended primarily for the advanced student or research recruit, whatever his background, and aims to give him a good insight into both diffraction theory and the relations between a pattern in real space and its Fourier transform in reciprocal space.