Karin Aurivillius
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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)
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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. 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.
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SwedenCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 1982 · aged 62
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