Yoshi Okaya

Professor of Chemistry

Yoshi Okaya

1967-1995

 

Crystallographic Pioneer

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The Progress in Crystal Structure Determination over the Last Forty Years: A Memoir by a Man who Tried to Eliminate his Speciality, Rigaku Journal, 8, 1 (1991).

Professor Okaya was a leader in the automation of X-ray crystallographic structure determination, from computer-controlled data collection to solution, refinement, and presentation of the final results.