Cavendish Laboratory : Portrait of John Desmond Bernal
Cavendish Laboratory
<p style='text-align: justify;'>John Desmond Bernal graduated in physics from Emmanuel college in 1923, having spent his last year of studies on extensive research on space groups in crystals. This turned out to be his lifelong interest - he was a pioneer of X-ray crystallography and the inventor of an X-ray photogoniometer.</p>