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Peter Jaffrey Wheatley Bio

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Peter Jaffrey Wheatley:

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley was a British chemist and x-ray crystallographer.

Birth:

1921 in Cheshire, England

Death:

May 12, 1997

Claim to Fame:

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley used x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of many compounds and wrote the authoritative text Determination of Molecular Structure that became a standard textbook on the subject.

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