Golden oldies: ten crystallography articles that we think must be read

Abstract

We have selected a set of ten `golden oldies', diverse crystallography articles to illustrate important moments in the development of our field of science and which form landmark papers in crystallography. They are a mixture of `science pull and technology push'. For each of our choices, we firstly created a new title that emphasizes how the paper's importance worked out from today's perspective. Then we describe the core details and impacts of each paper, with some quotations and a selected figure or two. Ten is an arbitrary number of highlights and our choice is personal.

Keywords

• landmark papers in crystallography
• science pull
• technology push