The trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until it's too late for them to back out.
Paul NiggliDied 13 Jan 1953 at age 64 (born 26 Jun 1888).Swiss mineralogist who originated the idea of a systematic deduction of the patterns in the internal structure of crystals by means of X-ray data. He supplied a complete outline of methods that have since been used to determine these patterns. There are 230 possible different internal patterns for different crystals. Because the patterns describe a three-dimensional arrangement, they are known as space groups. Niggli also developed a notation that described the individual space groups, and co-authored a definitive set of tables describing them. |
