- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the Department of Crystallography, Oxford, per Professor Keith Prout. Likely to have been used by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in the late 1930s / early 1940s as part of her Nobel Prize winning research.
- Primary inscriptions
- "C" plaque on lid.
- Dimensions
- Height: 243mm Width: 410mm Depth: 176mm
- Inventory No
- 45229
- Accession Number
- 2003-6/1
Description
A set of Beevers-Lipson Strips used by crystallographers to examine the structure of crystals. The wooden case is wedge shaped with a removable lid, the case is divided into 33 sections each containing many strips of card with numerical values printed on them.
