CNCC Newsletters

CNCC Newsletters are normally produced once a year, or more often if there is special news or announcements. Black/White (and maybe occassional colour) hardcopies of newsletters are mailed to Canadian base users of crystallographic methods. If you are not on the distribution list and wish to receive future newsletters, contact the CNCC to start receiving them

• CNCC Newsletter No 2, December 2009 (English) (Screen Res 2.6 Meg PDF File) | (Print Quality 17 Meg PDF File) | (Zipped 119 Meg MS-Word File)
• Table of Contents:
• Members of the CNCC
• Poster: 8th Canadian Powder Diffraction Workshop, 21st to 23rd June 2010
• Newsletter Overview
• 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and updated CNCC Poster
• IUCr "Photographs of Crystallographers" web gallery
  • Error in original hardcopy: On the page 4 group photo, Gerald Dolling was misidentified as Malcolm Harvey. Thanks to Bill Buyers and Malcolm Collins for pointing this out. This has been corrected in the on-line version.
  • Missing in original hardcopy: On the page 6 C2 opening group photo, #71 is Ron Child (McMaster VP Research)and #72 is Francis Temme (Queen's). Thanks to Malcolm Collins for providing this information. This has been corrected in the on-line version.
• 2010 Chemical Crystallography Workshop: 25th to 29th May 2010 - Jim Britten
• The Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector at the Canadian Light Source and Advances in X-ray Scattering and Diffraction Workshop - Stefan Kycia
• Reprint: Update on the CNCC Larry Calvert Student Travel Fund - Marie Fraser
• Adding or updating your information within the IUCr World Directory of Crystallographers
• Reprint: QTAIM: quantum theory of atoms in molecules - Richard F.W. Bader
• Reprint: Comments on QTAIM - T. Stanley Cameron
• Poster: IUCr 2014 congress to be at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, August 5-12, 2014
  • Obituary: Louis T. J. Delbaere (1943-2009) - by Michael James, Stanley Cameron, Wilson Quail, Gerald Audette & Sine Larsen
  • Obituary: Maria Przybylska (1923-2008) - by Mirek Cygler & David Rose

• CNCC Newsletter No 1, September 2009 (English) (Screen Res 5.5 Meg PDF File) | (Print Quality 25 Meg PDF File) | (Zipped 75 Meg MS-Word File)
• Table of Contents:
• Members of the CNCC
• Newsletter Overview
• CNCC website now located at www.canadiancrystallography.ca
• Introduction to the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography (CNCC) - Louis Delbaere
• Adding or updating your information within the IUCr World Directory
• Call for articles for the IUCr newsletter, ACA newsletters and other relevant places
• The July 2009 ACA Toronto conference - David Rose
• Update on the CNCC Larry Calvert Student Travel Fund - Marie Fraser
• Canadian Light Source - Pawel Grochulski
• NRU repair and neutron scattering beamtime - Dominic Ryan
• Preliminary Poster: IUCr 2014 congress to be at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Quebec, Canada, August 5-12, 2014
• Full versions of articles submitted to the IUCr Newsletter for the edition titled "Crystallography in Canada":
  • From the "Crystallography in Canada" IUCr Newsletter article editors - The Canadian National Committee for Crystallography
  • Some early Canadian crystallographers - Carol P. Huber
  • Larry Calvert (1924-1993): Metals, accuracy, powder method and structure databases; A lasting heritage - Yvon Le Page
  • Mineralogical Crystallography in Canada - Frank C. Hawthorne
  • For The Love Of Computers In The 1950's - Farid R. Ahmed
  • Crispin Calvo (1930 - 1977) - Abraham Clearfield
  • Early Days of Protein Crystallography in Canada - Michael James
  • Eric Gabe - by Eric Gabe
  • Osvald Knop - T. Stanley Cameron
  • QTAIM: quantum theory of atoms in molecules - Richard F.W. Bader
  • Comments on QTAIM - T. Stanley Cameron
  • A life in Science - Andrew D. Booth
  • 19th century basics spearhead 21st century progress : some autobiographic details - Yvon Le Page
  • Stanley C. Nyburg - by Stanley C. Nyburg
  • I. David Brown - by I. David Brown
  • A.C. Larson in Canada - by Allen C. Larson
  • An Interesting Interlude with Pyrolytic Graphite - Sandy Mathieson
  • VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT: CODE OF ETHICS IN SCIENTIFIC WORK - Joseph (José) Désiré Hubert Donnay (1902-1994)

Archival CNCC Newsletters

• CNCC Newsletter April 1990 (English) (PDF File) | CNCC Newsletter April 1990 (French) (PDF File)
• The Committee
• IUCr North American Regional Association
• IUCr Extraordinary General Assembly, London, December 1989.
• IUCr Bordeaux Congress
• NSERC grants
• I.U.Cr. Congress, Bordeaux, 1990. Travel Fellowships from CNC Trust Fund.
• Visit of Sir David Phillips
• New Ph.D. Crystallographers
• NEUTRON SCATTERING AT CHALK RIVER: a) Elastic Scattering Instrument ; b) DUALSPEC nears completion
• McMaster nuclear reactor & single-crystal neutron diffractometer
• Newsletter comments
• Electronic mail update
• CNCC Newsletter April 1989 (English) (PDF File) | CNCC Newsletter April 1989 (French) (PDF File)
• I.U.Cr. Congress, Bordeaux, 1990. FIRST CIRCULAR and SCHOLARSHIPS
• OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
• THE ON-GOING SAGA OF NSERC FUNDING
• McMASTER REACTOR SHUT-DOWN
• HARDWARE WITHOUT SOFTWARE
• NEWSLETTER COMMENTS
• ELECTRONIC MAIL UPDATE
• CNCC Newsletter July 1987 (English) (PDF File) | CNCC Newsletter July 1987 (French) (PDF File)
• TRAVEL AWARDS
• DONNAY & DONNAY
• M.Sc. AND Ph.D. DEGREES RESULTING FROM CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES
• A.C.A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
• CAD4 NEWSLETTER
• NETNORTH UPDATE
• CANADIAN NEUTRON SCATTERING ADVANCES
• BOB FERGUSON HONOURED
• CNCC Newsletter May 1986 (English) (PDF File) | CNCC Newsletter May 1986 (French) (PDF File)
• TRAVEL AWARDS
• CAD-4 Newsletter
• NOTICE OF FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
• LIST OF NETNORTH ADDRESSES
• ERRATUM ET APOLOGIA (Sackcloth and ashes have been worn)
• CNCC Newsletter November 1985 (English) (PDF File) | CNCC Newsletter November 1985 (French) (PDF File)
• TRAVEL AWARDS
• COMPUTERIZED MAILING LIST
• A CANADIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC COMPUTER CONFERENCE?
• CONFERENCES
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA BASES AVAILABLE ON CAN/SND
• CNCC Newsletter May 1983 (English) (PDF File)
• CNC TRUST FUND
• JOINT MEETING: 41ST INTERNATIONAL PITTSBURGH DIFFRACTION CONFERENCE AND 3RD CANADIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY CONFERENCE : October 5-7, 1983, Toronto, Ontario
• CANADIAN CAD-4 USERS GROUP
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATABASES
• CANADIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHERS MAILING LIST
• CNCC Newsletter Future Years Meeting 1976 (English and French) (PDF File)
• CNCC Newsletter Note 1976 (English) (PDF File)
• Meeting of fifty Canadian Crystallographers held at McMaster University in May
• CNCC Newsletter March 1975 (English) (PDF File)
• The X Congress of the I.U.Cr. will be held in Amsterdam 7-15 August 1975
• An International Summer School on X-ray Dynamical Theory and Topography will be held in Limoges, France, Aug. 18-26, 1975.
• An International Summer School on Crystallographic Computing will be held in Prague 28 July to 5 August 1975.
• A course on Crystal Growth from 30 August to 7 Sept. 1975. Prof. F. Bedarida, Universita di Genova
• A school on the techniques used in the determination of electron charge, spin and momentum density is planned for the week before the Congress
• There are also conferences in conjunction with the X Congress: (a) Vapour Growth and Epitaxy, Amsterdam, 18-21 August 1975. (b) Neutron Diffraction, Petten, 5-6 August 1975.
• The radiation survey conducted by the Health Department has been concluded but the draft regulations are not yet written.
• It is hoped that Open Meetings of the National Committee will be held in Charlottesville at the ACA Meeting and in Amsterdam at the X I.U.Cr. Congress.
• The National Committee submits to the National Research Council a list of names from which to select the next committee.
• This Newsletter will be mailed to all those on the current mailing list.
• Vol. IV of the International Tables is now published
• Individual crystallographers who desire to have their laborat?ries checked for radiation safety can usually have thlS done by calling their Provincial Health Department.
• CNCC Newsletter February 1972 (English) (PDF File)
• Official Terms of Reference
• Resignations and nominations for new members
• The Neutron Diffraction Project
• Revised List of Canadian Crystallographers
• Miscellaneous Announcements: International meetings ; Local meetings
• I have been asked to draw to your attention three recent publications:
  • The 'Bond Index to the Determinations of Inorganic Crystal Structures I (BIDICS) is now available.
  • Crystal Structure Communications
  • The fourth edition of the World Directory of Crystallographers
• The Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography wishes to bring to the attention of all crystallographers the following important points:
  • The Union appreciates the valuable, purely voluntary help that members of Conrnissions give;
  • It is essential that members of the crystallographic community in general cooperate with all the Commissions and participate in their activities to a greater extent than seems to be the case at present.
• CNCC Newsletter 1971 (English) (PDF File)
• Proposed Meeting of Canadian Crystallographers at Ames
• Preliminary List of Canadian Crystallographers
• CNCC Newsletter February 1971 (English) (PDF File)
• Background Information about the Committee
• The normal functions of the Committee
• List of Crystallographers in Canada
• The IUCr Ninth International Congress