Swedish
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chemist
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and crystallographer at the
University of Lund
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion She determined the
crystal structure
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s of many
mercury compounds
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.
During the 1960s, she helped develop
crystallography
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in Sweden while working closely with her prominent husband and fellow chemist,
Bengt Aurivillius
Bengt Aurivillius (4 December, 1918 in Linköping – 2 May, 1994 in St. Peter's Parish, Malmöhus County) was a Swedish chemist known for his research in metal and mixed oxides.
Education and career
Aurivillius received his basic scientific edu ...
(1918–1994), who was a professor of inorganic chemistry at Lund University.
To reveal the structural chemistry of inorganic mercury (II) oxide or sulphide compounds, she studied crystal structures using X-rays and neutron diffraction methods. Some of her research was conducted at the Institute of Atomic Energy Research at the
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
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(AERE) located in
Didcot
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, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Honors
The extremely rare mineral ''aurivilliusite'' was named in honor of Karin Aurivillius, for "her significant contributions to the crystal chemistry of mercury-bearing inorganic compounds." The mineral is dark grey-black with a dark red-brown streak and has been found at a small prospect pit near the abandoned Clear Creek mercury mine, New Idria district,
San Benito County
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, California.
Selected works
* Aurivillius, K. A. R. I. N. "The crystal structure of mercury (II) oxide studied by X-ray and neutron diffraction methods." ''Acta Chemica Scandinavica'' 10 (1956): 852–866.
* Aurivillius, Karin. ''The structural chemistry of inorganic mercury (II) compounds: some aspects of the determination of the positions of" light" atoms in the presence of" heavy" atoms in crystal structures''. Diss. 1965.
* Aurivillius, K. A. R. I. N., and INCA-BRETT Carlsson. "The structure of hexagonal mercury (II) oxide." ''Acta Chemica Scandinavica'' 12 (1958): 1297.
* Aurivillius, Karin, and Bo Arne Nilsson. "The crystal structure of mercury (II) phosphate, Hg3 (PO4) 2." ''Z. Kristallogr'' 141.1-2 (1975): 1-10.
* Aurivillius, Karin, and Claes Stålhandske. "A reinvestigation of the crystal structures of HgSO4 and CdSO4." ''Zeitschrift für Kristallographie-Crystalline Materials'' 153.1-2 (1980): 121–129.
* Aurivillius, K. A. R. I. N., and L. E. N. A. Folkmarson. "The crystal structure of terlinguaite Hg4O2Cl2." ''Acta Chemica Scandinavica'' 22 (1968): 2529–2540.
* AURIVILLIUS, KARIN, and BIRGITTA MALMROS. "Studies on sulphates, selenates and chromates of mercury (II)." ''Acta Chem. Scand'' 15.9 (1961): 1932–1938.
* Aurivillius, K. A. R. I. N., and G-I. Bertinsson. "Structures of complexes between metal halides and phosphinothioethers or related ligands. X. , 9-Bis (diphenylphosphino)-3, 7-dithianonanemonoiodonickel tetraphenylborate." ''Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry'' 36.4 (1980): 790–794.