Buerger, Martin Julian

Person summary

Name: Buerger, Martin Julian
Date of birth: 1903-04-08
Date of death: 1986-02-26
Place of birth: United States, Michigan, Detroit
Place of death: United States, Massachusetts, Lincoln
Nationality: American
Occupation: Faculty Geology and Geophysics 1925-1968; Emeritus

Description

Martin Buerger was a professor in the MIT Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a pioneer in using x-ray photography to determine the structure of minerals. He invented dozens of instruments for use in x-ray crystallography, authored ten textbooks on the subject, and developed a camera that became the standard for photographing crystal structures for decades.