Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff

Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (born Aug. 9, 1897, Geneva, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1994, Tucson, Ariz.) was an American research scientist, a pioneer in the application of X-ray methods to determine crystal structures and one of the first to use these methods for studying biological substances. Wyckoff was educated at Cornell University and was an instructor in analytical chemistry from 1917 to 1919. He subsequently worked in the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute of...