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Arthur Lindo Patterson
British crystallographer (1902โ1966)
Born
Jul 23, 1902 (124)
Birth Place
Nelson
Nationality
United States
Died
1966-11-06
About
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 ฮฒ rays with solids.