Martin J. Buerger
1903 - 1986
Crystallographer, MIT Institute Professor, and inventor of the precession x-ray diffraction method and camera.
His obituary, written by his colleague and friend Clifford Frondel, was published in: American Mineralogist, Volume 73 (1988), pp 1483-85. It is available online http://www.minsocam.org/ammin/AM73/AM73_1483.pdf (accessed 08/28/2014)