Some Nobel Prizes for Diffraction and Crystallography

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1901 W. C. Roentgen, Discovery of x-rays.

1914 Max von Laue, Discovery of diffraction of X-rays by crystals.

1915 Sir William H. Bragg, William L. Bragg, Molecular structures derived from X- ray diffraction by crystals.

1927 A. H. Compton, Scattering of x-rays by electrons.

1936 Peter J. Debye, Understanding molecular structure through work on the dipole moment and the X-ray and electron diffraction in gases.

1937 Clinton J. Davisson, George P. Thompson, Electron diffraction by crystals.

1954 Linus C. Pauling, The chemical bond and structure determination of complex substances.

1962 Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew, Structural determination of myoglobin and hemoglobin using X-ray diffraction.

1962 James D. Watson, Francis H. C. Crick, Maurice H. F. Wilkins, Structure determination of DNA and its significance for the genetic code.

1964 Dorothy Hodgkin, Structural determination of important biochemical substances using X-ray diffraction.

1976 William N. Lipscomb, Determination of structures of boron hydrides by X-ray diffraction.

1982 Aaron Klug, Structures of nucleic acid-protein complexes.

1985 Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle, Direct methods of x-ray structure determination.

1987 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Marmut Michel, X-ray structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.

1994 Betram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull, Neutron Diffraction.