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Karin Aurivillius
Swedish chemist and crystallographer · Sweden · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1920 to 1982 · aged 62
Karin Aurivillius (1920-1982) was a Swedish chemist and crystallographer at the University of Lund, Sweden. She determined the crystal structures of many mercury compounds.
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![Montroydite crystal structure (Aurivillius 1964) along the b axis. (Created with the help of the free structure program VESTA and the CIF data from Karin Aurivillius: Least-squares refinement of the crystal structures of orthorhombic HgO and of Hg2O2NaI.)[7]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Montroydite_crystal_structure_%28Aurivillius_1964%29_along_b_axis.png/500px-Montroydite_crystal_structure_%28Aurivillius_1964%29_along_b_axis.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
About this person
During the 1960s, Aurivillius helped develop crystallography in Sweden while working closely with her prominent husband and fellow chemist, Bengt Aurivillius (1918-1994), who was a professor of inorganic chemistry at Lund University.
Country
Sweden
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 1982 · aged 62
