Astbury Bibliography

Allen, Garland E., Life science in the twentieth century (London: Wiley, 1975)

Bernal, J. D., ‘A universal X-ray photogoniometer’, The Journal of Scientific Instruments, 11, 1929, 343-353

Bernal, J. D., ‘William Thomas Astbury 1898- 1961’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 9, 1963, 1-35

Bragg, Sir Lawrence, The Development of X-ray Analysis (London: Bell, 1975)

Glasser, Otto, Dr. W. C. Rontgen (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1958)

Hammond, Christopher, The Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Olby, Robert, The Path to the Double Helix (London: Macmillan, 1974)

Philips, David, ‘William Lawrence Bragg 31 March 1890-1 July 1971’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 25, 1979, 74-143.

Watson, James, The double helix : a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Penguin, 1970)

Astbury's Books

Fundamentals of fibre structure (London: Oxford University Press, 1933)

Textile Fibres under the X-rays (Birmingham: Imperial chemical industries limited, 1943)

A selection of Astbury’s Papers

‘The Crystalline Structure and Properties of Tartaric Acid’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 102, 1923, 506-528

‘The Crystalline Structure of Anhydrous Racemic Acid’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 104, 1923, 219-235

(with Kathleen Yardley) ‘Tabulated Data for the Examination of the 230 Space-Groups by Homogeneous X-Rays’,Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, 224, 1924, 221-257

‘A Simple Radioactive Method for the Photographic Measurement of the Integrated Intensity of X-Ray Spectra’,Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 115, 1927, 640-657

‘A New Integrating Photometer for X-Ray Crystal Reflections, etc.’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 123, 1929, 575-602

‘A new integrating microphotometer for X-ray crystal reflections’, The Journal of Scientific Instruments, 7, 1929, 209-213

(with A. Street) ‘X-Ray Studies of the Structure of Hair, Wool, and Related Fibres. I. General’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, 230, 1932, 75-101

(with H. J. Woods) ‘X-Ray Studies of the Structure of Hair, Wool, and Related Fibres. II. The Molecular Structure and Elastic Properties of Hair Keratin’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, 232, 1934, 333-394

‘A mercury-sealed water-cooled rotating X-ray target’, Nature, 133/3360, 1934, 460

(with W. A. Sisson) ‘X-Ray Studies of the Structure of Hair, Wool, and Related Fibres. III. The Configuration of the Keratin Molecule and Its Orientation in the Biological Cell’,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 150, 1935, 533-551

‘Fibre Studies’, Nature, 138, 1936, 824-5

‘Croonian Lecture: On the Structure of Biological Fibres and the Problem of
Muscle’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 134, 1947), 303-328

by Imogen Clarke