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Figure 5
Some of the scientists at Caltech in the early 1940's involved in the development and first applications of IBM Hollerith computers to crystallography: (a) Linus Pauling (1901–1994); (b) Edward Wesley Hughes (1904–1987); (c) Verner Schomaker (1914–1997); (d) Philip Anderson Shaffer Jr (1916–1974); (e) Paul-Antoine Giguère (1910–1987). (f) Henri A. Levy (1913–2003) [Figure (a) courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology, (b) from the American Crystallographic Association monograph of McLachlan & Glusker, 1983BB113; (c) courtesy of Dick Marsh, Caltech, USA; (d) courtesy of Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA; (e) courtesy of Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; (f) courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.] Two other Caltech crystallographers of the time but not pictured here were Lu Jiaxi (Chia-Si Lu) (1915–2001) and Robert Brainard Corey (1897–1971).

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