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Optically Anomalous Crystals begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of Brewster, Biot, Mallard, Brauns, Tamman, and many other distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry: 1. the piezo-optic effect, and 2. the kinetic ordering of atoms. The text then tackles complex, inhomogeneous crystals, and the complex optical properties resulting from the superposition of anomalies having various etiologies. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses. This is an invaluable text for crystallographers, mineralogists, and petrologists interested in the growth of minerals and synthetic crystals, and their optical properties. It is also ideally suited to students of optical mineralogy, professional scientists and engineers as well as historians of science.

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From the reviews: <p> The present volume constitutes a comprehensive and detailed review of the current state of knowledge about anomalous crystals. a ] The text is illustrated by many figures and black-and-white photographs a ] . This book is well referenced a ] . this is an authoritative and insightful book on a fascinating book on a fascinating research topic. For the specialist, it is an invaluable work of reference and source of information and inspiration; those unfamiliar with this field will find stimulation and entertainment by browsing the book. (Pedro Cintas, Angewandte Chemie, Vol. 46 (32), 2007)

Aus den Rezensionen: ! Profitiert hat das Buch insbesondere von der Herausgeberschaft Bart Kahrs, eines fuhrenden Experten auf den Gebieten Kristalldesign und chirale Kristalle. ! Das Inhaltsverzeichnis ist ubersichtlich und detailliert ! Die Starke des Buchs liegt sicherlich in der Beschreibung von Modellen, mit deren Hilfe die entsprechenden Eigenschaften detailliert untersucht werden konnen. ! Fur den Spezialisten kann dieses Buch als ein wertvolles Nachschlagewerk und als Inspirationsquelle dienen. Auf dem Gebiet unerfahrene Leser finden interessante, unterhaltsame Berichte, die den Reiz dieses Forschungsgebiets sehr gut vermitteln ! (Pedro Cintas, in: Angewandte Chemie, 2007, Vol. 119, Issue 32, S. 6109 f.)

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Alexander Shtukenberg was born in St. Petersburg in 1971. He received his diploma in crystallography and mineralogy from the St. Petersburg State University in 1993, and his PhD in 1997. Following postdoctoral fellowships at the Mineralogy and Petrography Institute of the University of Bonn and at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics, Berlin, he has returned to his alma mater as an instructor in crystallography. Shtukenberg's research has focused on the structure and properties of solid solutions. He has published 27 papers in addition to the monograph, Optical Anomalies in Crystals. Yurii Punin was born in St. Petersburg in 1941. He completed his education at the St. Petersburg State University in 1963. Following military service, he began his research career at the Earth Crust Research Institute of St. Petersburg State University completing a PhD thesis in 1970 on the kinetics of crystal growth. After habilitation in 1994, Punin received a professorship in the crystallography at the St. Petersburg State University. He has served as the head of the crystallography department since 2002. Punin is a specialist in the field of crystal growth from solution, having developed the theory of strain induced growth defects that provides insights into twinning, mosaicity, and order-disorder transitions. He has created a widely regarded course of lectures on ""Crystal Growth"" in addition to the publication of 120 papers and 2 books. Editor: Bart Kahr was born in New York City in 1961. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont. Following doctoral research on the stereochemistry of unusual molecules at Princeton University, he joined the laboratory of J. Michael McBride at Yale University where he studied the history of optically anomalous crystals. In 1990, he joined the chemistry faculty of Purdue University and was named a National Science Foundation Young Investigator. In 1997, Kahr moved his laboratory to the University of Washington in Seattle where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. His research group studies the growth, structure, and physical properties of crystalline solids, as well as the history of crystallography. He is the author or co-author of 100 scientific publications.

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