Book description
A comprehensive and approachable introduction to crystallography -
now updated in a valuable new edition
The Second Edition of this well-received book continues to offer the
most concise, authoritative, and easy-to-follow introduction to the
field of crystallography. Dedicated to providing a complete, basic
presentation of the subject that does not assume a background in
physics or math, the book's content flows logically from basic
principles to methods, such as those for solving phase problems,
interpretation of Patterson maps and the difference Fourier method,
the fundamental theory of diffraction and the properties of crystals,
and applications in determining macromolecular structure.
This new edition includes a vast amount of carefully updated
materials, as well as two completely new chapters on recording and
compiling X-ray data and growing crystals of proteins and other macromolecules.
Richly illustrated throughout to clarify difficult concepts, this
book takes a non-technical approach to crystallography that is ideal
for professionals and graduate students in structural biology,
biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular biology who are studying the
subject for the first time.
Alexander Mcpherson, PhD, is Professor in the
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of
California, Irvine's School of Biological Sciences. The author of six
books and 300 papers or reviews, he is widely considered the nation's
foremost authority in the field of macromolecular crystallography. For
over a decade, he has served as principal instructor of the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory course inmacromolecular X-ray
crystallography, an intensive course for which much of the material in
this text was originally conceived.
