J. D. Bernal
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Desmond Bernal was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society. He was a communist activist and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain .
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- A Theory of Water and Ionic Solution, with Particular Reference to Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Ions (1933) (2561)
- Packing of Spheres: Co-ordination of Randomly Packed Spheres (1960) (830)
- The Bakerian Lecture, 1962 The structure of liquids (1964) (813)
- A Geometrical Approach to the Structure Of Liquids (1959) (744)
- “The Origins of Life” (1957) (683)
- Geometry of the Structure of Monatomic Liquids (1960) (676)
- The Oxides and Hydroxides of Iron and Their Structural Inter-Relationships (1959) (466)
- The Physical Basis of Life (1949) (456)
- X-RAY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF PLANT VIRUS PREPARATIONS : I. INTRODUCTION AND PREPARATION OF SPECIMENS II. MODES OF AGGREGATION OF THE VIRUS PARTICLES. (1941) (434)
- The Social Function of Science (1967) (389)
- Liquid Crystalline Substances from Virus-infected Plants (1936) (323)
- X-Ray Photographs of Crystalline Pepsin (1934) (286)
- The Structure of Graphite (1924) (277)
- X-Rays in Theory and Experiment (1935) (245)
- Dialectics of Nature (1941) (231)
- Science in History (1954) (224)
- X-RAY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF PLANT VIRUS PREPARATIONS. III (1941) (129)
- Random close-packed hard-sphere model. II. Geometry of random packing of hard spheres (1967) (117)
- The structure of liquids (1960) (113)
- Structure Types of Protein ‘Crystals’ from Virus-infected Plants (1937) (106)
- The function of hydrogen in intermolecular forces (1935) (106)
- The origin of life (1967) (105)
- An attempt at a molecular theory of liquid structure (1937) (94)
- Crystalline phases of some substances studied as liquid crystals (1933) (91)
- An X-Ray Study of Chymotrypsin and Hæmoglobin (1938) (83)
- The Crystal Structure of the Natural Amino Acids and Belated Compounds (1931) (83)
- The Complex Structure of the Copper–Tin Intermetallic Compounds (1928) (76)
- Structure of Proteins (1939) (74)
- X-RAY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF PLANT VIRUS PREPARATIONS (1941) (71)
- Oriented Transformations in Iron Oxides and Hydroxides (1957) (68)
- On the Interpretation of X-Ray, Single Crystal, Rotation Photographs (1926) (65)
- X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I (1940) (63)
- Radial Distribution of the Random Close Packing of Equal Spheres (1962) (60)
- Science and industry in the nineteenth century (1970) (51)
- Crystal Structures of Vitamin D and Related Compounds (1932) (47)
- General introduction structure arrangements of macromolecules (1958) (43)
- Structure of the Crystals of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus Preparations (1938) (41)
- The Problem of Stages in Biopoesis (1959) (38)
- A Discussion on The Protein Molecule (1939) (37)
- Unit Cell Measurements of Wet and Dry Crystalline Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus (1948) (36)
- Random close-packed hard-sphere model. I. Effect of introducing holes (1967) (35)
- The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference (1948) (35)
- The Freedom of Necessity (1950) (34)
- Crystallographic research on the hydration of Portland cement. A first report on investigations in progress (1952) (33)
- Random Packing of Spheres in Non-rigid Containers (1967) (30)
- Interferometric and X-ray investigation of the growth of long-chain fatty acid crystals I. Polymorphism and polytypism in palmitic acid crystals (1955) (27)
- William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961 (1963) (26)
- SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AND ITS USERS (1960) (25)
- Random Close Packing and the Heats of Fusion of Simple Liquids (1967) (24)
- The extension of man (1972) (22)
- Significance of Carbonaceous Meteorites in Theories on the origin of Life (1961) (22)
- Note on the pseudo-crystalline structure of water (1933) (20)
- Carbon skeleton of the sterols (1932) (20)
- Growth of Crystals from Random Close Packing (1964) (19)
- Die Wissenschaft in der Geschichte (1961) (19)
- Part III.—Metals. The problem of the metallic state (18)
- X-Ray Analysis of the Structure of the Wall of Valonia ventricosa.--I (1932) (18)
- Rotation of Molecules In Crystals (1932) (18)
- Part IB.—Conduction in solids (excluding metals) and diffusion and chemical change in solids. Geometrical factors in reactions involving solids (1938) (16)
- Use of the Centrifuge in Determining the Density of Small Crystals (1934) (16)
- Random Close Packing and the Heats of Fusion of Argon at High Pressures (1967) (15)
- Zero Point Energy and Physical Properties of H2O and D2O (1935) (15)
- Vector Maps and the Cyclol Hypothesis (1939) (15)
- Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Spontaneous Generation (1960) (14)
- [Letters to Editors] (1933) (14)
- The structure of water and its biological implications. (1965) (14)
- Science teaching in general education (1945) (13)
- The place of X-ray diffraction methods in the estimation of the size and mutual arrangements of colloidal particles (1951) (12)
- Crystal Structure of Vitamin B1 and of Adenine Hydrochloride (1933) (11)
- A Discussion on Viscosity of Liquids (1937) (11)
- A Discussion on New Aspects of Virus Disease (1938) (11)
- The relation of microscopic structure to molecular structure (1968) (11)
- THE FUNCTION OF THE HYDROGEN BOND IN SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS (1959) (11)
- The Structure of Strontium and Barium Peroxides SrO2 and BaO2. (1935) (11)
- A Discussion on Supraconductivity and Other Low Temperature Phenomena (1935) (10)
- 21. The structure of some hydrocarbons related to the sterols (1935) (9)
- Symmetry of the genesis of form (1967) (9)
- “Anomalous” Water (1969) (8)
- SCIENCE IN HISTORY : VOLUME 1 THE EMERGENCE OF SCIENCE (1969) (8)
- The orgin of life (1967) (8)
- A Dense Packing of Hard Spheres with Five-fold Symmetry (1966) (8)
- Continental and Oceanic Differentiation (1961) (8)
- Lessons of the war for science (1944) (7)
- Le rôle de l'eau dans les substances cristallisées (1953) (7)
- The importance of symmetry in the solids and liquids (1958) (7)
- Dr. Rosalind E. Franklin (1958) (7)
- A universal X-ray photogoniometer (1928) (7)
- Science, Industry and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1953) (7)
- The molecular shape of calciferol and related substances (1935) (7)
- L'origine de la vie (1972) (7)
- The Scale of Structural Units in Biopoesis (1959) (7)
- Discussion on Heavy Hydrogen: Opening Address (1934) (6)
- The Goldschmidt memorial lecture (1949) (6)
- The emergence of science (1969) (6)
- Properties and Structures of Crystalline Vitamins (1932) (6)
- A Discussion on the Protein Molecule, 17 November 1938. Opening Address (1939) (6)
- X-Rays and the Cyclol Hypothesis (1939) (6)
- Marxism: Is it Science ? (1941) (5)
- X-ray crystallographic data on the sex hormones, oestrone, androsterone, testosterone and progesterone and related substances (1936) (5)
- The scientific and industrial revolutions (1965) (5)
- The Extension Of Man: A History Of Physics Before 1900 (1973) (5)
- Physics of Water and Ice (1958) (5)
- THE SUPPLY OF INFORMATION TO THE SCIENTIST: SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT DAY (1957) (5)
- The Future of X-Ray Analysis (1945) (4)
- The Physics of Air Raids (1941) (4)
- Order and disorder and their expression in diffraction (1959) (4)
- A preliminary X-ray study of crystals of the complex ribonuclease – parachloromercuribenzoate (1959) (4)
- Continental and Oceanic Differentiation (1961) (4)
- Modern Science (1939) (4)
- CORRIGENDUM: The Physical Basis of Life (1949) (3)
- Marx and Science (1953) (3)
- A prospect of peace (1960) (3)
- My Time at the Royal Institution 1923–27 (1962) (3)
- Symmetry of Azulene Crystals (1956) (3)
- Phase Determination in the X-Ray Diffraction Patterns of Complex Crystals and its Application to Protein Structure (1952) (3)
- Discussion on Recent Work on Heavy Proteins in Virus Infection and its Bearing on the Nature of Viruses (1938) (3)
- X‐ray crystallographic measurements on some derivatives of cardiac aglucones (1934) (3)
- The crystal structure of ribonuclease. Comparison of three-dimensional Patterson vector maps of crystals grown from ethyl and tertiary butyl alcohol respectively (1959) (2)
- SUMMARY PAPERS AND SUMMARY JOURNALS IN CHEMISTRY (1965) (2)
- Science in History, Volume 4: The Social Sciences: A Conclusion (1971) (2)
- Use of the Centrifuge in Determining the Density of Small Crystals (1935) (2)
- Forty Years of X-Ray Diffraction (1952) (2)
- Aspects of Dialectical Materialism (1934) (2)
- The past and future of X-ray crystallography. (1946) (2)
- The Scientific Estate (1966) (2)
- A Permanent International Scientific Commission (1945) (2)
- Militarism and industry : arms profiteering in the missile age (1963) (2)
- Prof. Isadore Fankuchen (1964) (2)
- The Extension of Man: The History of Physics Before the Modern Age (1973) (2)
- BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: The Integration of Science and Society: The Social Function of Science (1969) (1)
- Crystallography. (1934–1935.) (1935) (1)
- The Missing Factor in Science (1947) (1)
- Comments on the paper of Hallett and Mason (1958) (1)
- The structure of the diels' hydrocarbon C18H16 (1933) (1)
- The Place of X-ray Crystallography in the Development of Modern Science (1930) (1)
- British and Commonwealth Schools of Crystallography (1962) (1)
- Towards a Science of Science / John D. Bernal, Alan L. Mackay. (1966) (1)
- Transformation in science. (1945) (1)
- Science in History, Volume 3 (1971) (1)
- A Simple Stage Goniometer for Use in Connexion with X-Ray Crystal Analysis (1947) (1)
- HAS HISTORY A MEANING? (1955) (1)
- The natural sciences in our time (1969) (1)
- Appendix A, Lessons of the war for science (1975) (1)
- Views of a Geologist on the Origin of Life (1962) (1)
- Science, internationalism, and war (1975) (1)
- Ought Science to Be Planned? Two Opposing Views (1949) (1)
- The use of Fourier transforms in protein crystal analysis (1953) (1)
- Crystallography (1930–31) (1931) (1)
- “Conditions of Survival” (1946) (1)
- Rayons X et structure des protéines (1938) (1)
- STUDIES IN THE GEOMETRY OF RANDOM PACKING. (1969) (1)
- Orgueil Meteorite (1968) (1)
- Prof. Paul Langevin, For.Mem.R.S. (1872–1946) (1947) (0)
- M. V. Lomonosov (1940) (0)
- X-ray diffraction in the last fifty years of physics (1968) (0)
- Scientific Workers and War (1936) (0)
- XXV. Discussion (1965) (0)
- 5 – On the Interpretation of X-ray, Single Crystal, Rotation Photographs* (1966) (0)
- Concluding remarks (1958) (0)
- The Energy of Science (1964) (0)
- Letter from John Desmond Bernal to J. T. Randall (1953) (0)
- Introductory remarks (1958) (0)
- Atomic and molecular structure (1962) (0)
- La Science et la faim (1968) (0)
- J.D. Bernal, Une étude sur La double hélice de James D. Watson (1969) (0)
- Structure Reports for 1945–1946 edited by A. J. C. Wilson, C. S. Barrett, J. M. Bijvoet and J. M. Robertson (1955) (0)
- Science and Marxist Philosophy (1941) (0)
- Die Wissenschaft im Kampf um Frieden und Sozialismus (1950) (0)
- Letter from John Desmond Bernal to Monsieur Beaudouin (1956) (0)
- The Extension of Man: A History of Physics before the Quantum (1972) (0)
- New Ideas about Muscles (1958) (0)
- Concluding remarks (1964) (0)
- The social sciences : conclusion (1969) (0)
- Britain's cultural heritage (1953) (0)
- Letter from John Desmond Bernal to A. Tattersall (1953) (0)
- Strukturbericht: 16. Titelsammlung (1939) (0)
- M. V. Lomonosov (1711–1765) (1940) (0)
- Significance of Inclusions in Carbonaceous Meteorites (1966) (0)
- PUBLIC POLICY AND SCIENCE (1967) (0)
- Not for Congressmen@@@The Social Function of Science (1940) (0)
- The British Association of Scientific Workers (1930) (0)
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA (1956) (0)
- Electrical Interpretation of Inorganic Chemistry (1951) (0)
- Strukturbericht: 18. Titelsammlung (1939) (0)
- Life: Origin and development: By Gösta Ehrensvärd. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1962. x, 164 pp. Price $4.50 (1963) (0)
- Human Needs (1963) (0)
- Strukturbericht: 17. Titelsammlung (1939) (0)
- Science in Hungary (1957) (0)
- Present-Day Science and Technology in the U.S.S.R. (1941) (0)
- D. D. Kosambi (1966) (0)
- Science and Values (1957) (0)
- Mr. E. A. Nahum (1942) (0)
- Experimental Bacteriology in its Applications to the Diagnosis, Epidemiology and Immunology of Infectious Diseases (1935) (0)
- Air Raid Precautions (1937) (0)
- NON-IDEAL AND DISORDERED STRUCTURES - STATISTICAL GEOMETRICAL APPROACH EXEMPLIFIED IN A STUDY OF RANDOM PACKINGS AND LIQUID STATE (1969) (0)
- "Proposed Central Publication of Scientific Papers" (1948) (0)
- [Obituaries] (1938) (0)
- Academician S. I. Vavilov (1951) (0)
- SCIENCE AND HUMANISM (1947) (0)
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