Hugo Rietveld

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Hugo M. Rietveld (born March 7, 1932 in The Hague , † July 16, 2016 in Alkmaar ) was a Dutch crystallographer . The Rietveld method named after him goes back to him .

Life

After his parents emigrated to Australia , Rietveld studied at the University of Western Australia and received his doctorate under the supervision of Ted Maslen. The topic was neutron diffraction on single crystals of p -diphenylbenzene . After completing his doctorate, he returned to the Netherlands and carried out research on the reactor in Petten . It was there that his first computer program for refining neutron powder diagrams was created. It was written in the Algol programming language . The method was then rarely used by other scientists. In 1975 Rietveld left science and became a librarian at the reactor center in Petten.

Rietveld method

The method became more widespread when a first Fortran version of the software became available (Alan Hewat, 1971). The big breakthrough came when the much more common X-ray diffraction was applied to powder diagrams .

Honors

Publications

  • CJB Clews, EN Maslen, HM Rietveld, TM Sabine: X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Examination of p-Diphenylbenzene . In: Nature . tape 192 , 1961, pp. 154-155 , doi : 10.1038 / 192154a0 .
  • HM Rietveld: Line profiles of neutron powder diffraction peaks for structure refinement . In: Acta Crystallographica . tape 22 , no. 1 , 1967, p. 151-152 , doi : 10.1107 / S0365110X67000234 .
  • HM Rietveld: A profile refinement method for nuclear and magnetic structures . In: Journal of Applied Crystallography . tape 2 , no. 2 , 1969, p. 65-71 , doi : 10.1107 / S0021889869006558 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rietveld, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rietveld, Hugo M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2016
Place of death Alkmaar