James Friauf
James Byron Friauf (1896-1972) was an American electrical engineer who first determined the crystal structure of MgZn2 in 1927, while he was a professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University.[1] The phase consists of intra-penetrating icosahedra, which coordinate the Zn atoms, and 16-vertex polyhedra that coordinate the Mg atoms. The latter type of polyhedron is called a Friauf polyhedron and is, actually, an inter-penetrating tetrahedron and a 12-vertex truncated polyhedron.
References
- ↑ B, Friauf, James (20 May 2014). "James Byron Friauf". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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