Hugo Rietveld
Hugo Rietveld | |
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| Born | March 7, 1932 |
| Died | July 16, 2016 (aged 84) |
| Education | University of Western Australia |
| Known for | Rietveld refinement |
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| Institutions | Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Norman Maslen |
| Other academic advisors | Dorothy Hodgkin |
Hugo M. Rietveld (7 March 1932 – 16 July 2016
Biography
Rietveld was born in
In 1964 he became a research officer at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland, ECN) in Petten, where he worked together with Bert Loopstra and Bob van Laar on the structure solution and refinement of uranates and other ceramic compounds using neutron powder diffraction. In 1967 he implemented the full profile refinement method in a computer program, which he published in his 1969 citation classic.[3] This innovation, however, was only slowly adopted by the community, and so Rietveld in 1974 chose to become head of the library department at Petten.[4] He stayed at ECN until he retired in 1992.
Awards
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Hugo M. Rietveld, the Aminoff prize in Stockholm, 31 March 1995.
- Barrett Award on behalf of the Denver X-ray Conference Organizing Committee in Denver, U.S., 6 August 2003.
- The Royal Award of Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, for his outstanding contribution to the field of chemistry. Alkmaar, Netherlands, 28 October 2004.
- Award for Distinguished Powder Diffractionists, awarded by The European Diffraction Conferences, handed out on 30 August 2010 in Darmstadt.
- Hans-Kühl-Medal 2010, awarded by Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Fachgruppe Bauchemie, handed out on 7 October 2010 in Dortmund.
Further reading
- Young, R. A. (Ed.). (1993). The Rietveld method (Vol. 6). Oxford. Oxford University Press.
- Rietveld, H. M. (1 January 1967). "Line profiles of neutron powder-diffraction peaks for structure refinement". Acta Crystallographica. 22 (1). International Union of Crystallography (IUCr): 151–152. ISSN 0365-110X.
- Rietveld, H. M. (2 June 1969). "A profile refinement method for nuclear and magnetic structures". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 2 (2). International Union of Crystallography (IUCr): 65–71. ISSN 0021-8898.
- Rietveld, H. M. (2010). "The Rietveld Method: A Retrospection". Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. 225 (12). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 545–547. S2CID 98124155.
- Rietveld, Hugo M (1 August 2014). "The Rietveld method". Physica Scripta. 89 (9). IOP Publishing: 098002. S2CID 121006332.
External links
- Personal page Archived 13 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ISSN 1600-5767.
- ^ "Dr. Hugo M. Rietveld". www.familieberichtenopinternet.nl. Archived from the original on 23 July 2016.
- ISSN 0021-8898.
- ^ Obituary Hugo Rietveld (1932–2016), loc. cit.
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