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Martin Julian Buerger

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. He was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal by the Geological Society of America in 1951. The mineral buergerite was named for him.

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Significant works

The photography of the reciprocal lattice, (ASXRED monograph), Murray Print. Co., 1944
X-ray crystallography;: An introduction to the investigation of crystals by their diffraction of monochromatic X radiation, 531pp., Chapman & Hall, 1958
Elementary crystallography;: An introduction to the fundamental geometrical features of crystals, 528pp., Wiley, 1963
Contemporary crystallography, 364pp., McGraw Hill, 1970
Introduction to crystal geometry, 204pp., R. E. Krieger, 1977
Crystal-Structure Analysis, 668pp, Krieger Pub Co, 1979