Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein (Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Вайнште́йн, 10 July 1921 – 28 October 1996) was a Russian
crystallographer. He headed the Laboratory of Protein Crystallography of the
Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, and was the director of the institute, where he spent the majority of his career.
Vainshtein studied at the
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches. Al ...
and the
Institute of Steel.
In 1990 Vainshtein won the second
IUCr Ewald Prize "for his contributions to the development of theories and methods of structure analysis by electron and X-ray diffraction and for his applications of his theories to structural investigations of polymers, liquid crystals, peptides and proteins".
Second Ewald Prize
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See also
* Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov
Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov (; 29March 1887 – 27April 1970) was a Soviet crystallographer and mathematician. Shubnikov was the founding director of the Institute of Crystallography (named after him following his death) of the Academy of Scien ...
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1921 births
1996 deaths
Crystallographers
Russian physical chemists
Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow State University alumni