No other scientific field has as many Nobel laureates per capita as the field of crystallography, and the American Crystallographic Association boasts five living Nobelists among its members. Six laureates—including all five ACA member Nobelists—will be in Philadelphia from June 26 to July 1 for the association’s annual meeting. Their symposium on Methods and Applications in Macromolecular Crystallography helps explain why conference organizers are predicting the highest attendance in the ACA’s 38-year history. Also appealing, says executive director William L. Duax, will be a symposium on nuclear magnetic resonance versus X-ray crystallography.

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