Carolina Henriette MacGillavry

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Carolina Henriette MacGillavry , also Mac Gillavry, (born January 22, 1904 in Amsterdam ; † May 9, 1993 ibid) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer .

She was called Mac by her collaborators and was sometimes written Mac Gillavry.

Life

She was the daughter of brain surgeon Donald MacGillavry and studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam from 1921 to 1932 . In 1925, she passed her candidate exam and studied the applications of quantum mechanics in chemistry. In 1932 she received her doctoral examination (diploma) cum laude . She was assistant to A. Smits and turned around 1934 under the influence of John Martin Bijvoet of X-ray crystallography to what they at Adriaan HW Aten with the issue of 1,937 crystals veel ling-Röntgendiffractie van de kristalstructuur van eenige diamminen doctorate was. After a short time in Leiden she was in Bijvoet's crystallographic laboratory in Amsterdam. In 1941 she became a conservator there. After the Second World War she was one of the leading scientists in the introduction of direct methods in crystallography , where she mainly dealt with the Harker-Kasper inequalities (after David Harker , John Simon Kasper 1948). In 1947 she became a lecturer and in 1950 she became associate professor and in 1957 full professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 1972 she retired.

In addition to X-ray crystallography, she also contributed to inorganic chemistry. She was friends with the British crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale . From 1954 to 1960 she was on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography.

They also published on mathematical aspects in the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher and the polyhedron in Albrecht Dürer 's Melancholia I .

In 1969 she became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1950 she was the first woman to be admitted to the Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) .

In 1968 she married the ear, nose and throat doctor JH Niewenhuijsen. She is buried in Utrecht .

Fonts

  • with JM Bijvoet, NH Kolmeijer: Röntgenanalyse van kristallen, 2nd edition 1948
  • Symmetric aspects of MC Escher's periodic drawings, A. Oosthoek, International Union of Crystallography 1965
  • Hidden Symmetry, in HSM Coxeter (Ed.), MC Escher, art and science, Amsterdam 1985
  • The symmetry of MC Escher's impossible images, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 12 B, 1968, pp. 123-138
  • The polyhedron in A. Dürer's Melancolia I. An over 450 years old puzzle solved?, Nederland Akad. Wetensch. Proc. 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Carolina H. MacGillavry at academictree.org, accessed on January 1 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Duerer's Solid, Mathworld
  3. ↑ Member entry by Carolina H. MacGillavry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME MacGillavry, Carolina Henriette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mac Gillavry, Carolina Henriette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1993
Place of death Amsterdam