The International Centre for Diffraction Data has selected the recipients for the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship.
For 2017, ten scholarships were awarded to students pursuing research topics such as real-time monitoring of solid-state reactions using X-ray powder diffraction and the study of battery materials through operando X-ray analysis. The ICDD will present each of these students with a check in the amount of $2,500 to assist in the continuation of studies in their selected fields of crystallographic research.
These scholarships are named for Ludo K. Frevel (1910-2011). Frevel joined the Dow Chemical Company spectroscopy laboratory in 1936 and was a top scientist there until his retirement. He held 60 patents and co-authored 446 technical papers, publishing his most recent paper at age 95. He was co-author with Hanawalt and Rinn on the 1938 paper, “Chemical Analysis by X-ray Diffraction.” He also wrote some of the first computer automated material identification software using X-ray powder diffraction data.
