Abstract:Crystallography and solid state chemistry lost one of its great men last summer when Arne Magn61i died at the age of 81.His pioneering work on the structural chemistry of certain transition-metal oxid...Crystallography and solid state chemistry lost one of its great men last summer when Arne Magn61i died at the age of 81.His pioneering work on the structural chemistry of certain transition-metal oxides was a major step forward in the development of our modern conception of non-stoichiometry.Arne Magn61i grew up in Stockholm where he also began his university studies.He started his research career under the guidance of Arne Westgren, Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Stockholm from 1927.Westgren had introduced studies of the atomic arrangement in solids with crystallographic methods at his department and was one of the pioneers of X-ray crystallography in Sweden.It was also Westgren who introduced another promising young researcher, Gunnar Hiigg, into this field and when the latter became Professor in Uppsala in 1936 he built up a very active crystallographic research group in the Chemistry Department.After finishing his licentiate degree in Stockholm, Magn61i also joined this team inRead More