Martin Julian Buerger

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Martin Julian Buerger
BornApril 8, 1903
Detroit, MI
DiedFebruary 26, 1986 (1986-02-27) (aged 82)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsArthur L. Day Medal - 1951,
Roebling Medal - 1958,
Honorary Doctorate from the
University of Bern, Switzerland,
Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsCrystallographer
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorWaldemar Lindgren

Martin Julian Buerger (April 8, 1903 – February 26, 1986) was an American crystallographer. He was a Professor of Mineralogy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He invented the X-ray precession camera for studies in crystallography. Buerger authored twelve textbooks/monographs and over 200 technical articles. He was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal by the Geological Society of America in 1951. The mineral fluor-buergerite was named for him. The MJ Buerger Award (established by the American Crystallographic Association) was established in his honor.

Buerger was a member of the Provisional International Crystallographic Committee chaired by P. P. Ewald from 1946 to 1948, and he continued as a member of the IUCr Executive Committee from 1948 to 1951. He was also a member of the Commission on International Tables from its establishment in 1948 until 1981.

He was the great-grandson of , who led a group of Lutheran immigrants from Germany to the United States in 1838, and helped found what is now the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.[citation needed]

In 1956, Buerger was the third person (after John C. Slater and Francis O. Schmitt) to have been appointed Institute Professor at MIT.

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