Martin Julian Buerger

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Martin Julian Buerger (April 8, 1903 – February 26, 1986) was an American crystallographer. He was a Professor of Mineralogy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He invented the X-ray precession camera for studies in crystallography. Buerger authored twelve textbooks/monographs and over 200 technical articles. He was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal by the Geological Society of America in 1951. The mineral fluor-buergerite was named for him. The MJ Buerger Award (established by the American Crystallographic Association) was established in his honor.

Martin Julian Buerger
BornApril 8, 1903 (1903-04-08)
DiedFebruary 26, 1986 (1986-02-27) (aged 82)
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsArthur L. Day Medal - 1951,
Roebling Medal - 1958,
Honorary Doctorate from the
University of Bern, Switzerland,
Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsCrystallographer
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Connecticut
Doctoral advisorWaldemar Lindgren
Doctoral studentsCharles T. Prewitt

Buerger was a member of the Provisional International Crystallographic Committee chaired by P. P. Ewald from 1946 to 1948, and he continued as a member of the IUCr Executive Committee from 1948 to 1951. He was also a member of the Commission on International Tables from its establishment in 1948 until 1981.

In 1956, Buerger was the third person (after John C. Slater and Francis O. Schmitt) to have been appointed Institute Professor at MIT.

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