Crystallography Across the Sciences 2
Abstract
Keywords: preface . This year the crystallographic community celebrates several important jubilees. In the summer, it will be 60 years since the International Union of Crystallography held its first Congress and General Assembly in Cambridge, USA, and elected its first Executive Committee. During the year, it will also be 60 years since the first volume of Acta Crystallographica was published by the IUCr, and 40 years since the launch of Journal of Applied Crystallography . The present 20th Executive Committee of the IUCr decided that these jubilees should be celebrated. One of the birthday actions is this Special Issue of Acta Crystallographica . Crystallography Across the Sciences 2 has been planned with a broad readership in mind. We asked the authors to write feature articles about their favourite subjects in a way that would be accessible to the whole crystallographic community. Articles describe state-of-the-art research in which crystallography has played a major role; they are intended to be attractive for a broad scientific readership including graduate and undergraduate science students. A few articles have also been included that describe the work of the IUCr or look back to important issues of more general interest. For example, the issue