Boris Vainshtein
Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein (Russian: Бори́с Константи́нович Вайнште́йн, 10 July 1921 – 28 October 1996) was a Russian crystallographer. He headed the Laboratory of Protein Crystallography of the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography RAS, and was the director of the institute, where he spent the majority of his career. Vainshtein studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Institute of Steel. In 1990 Vainshtein won the second IUCr Ewald Prize "for his contributions to the development of theories and methods of structure analysis by electron and X-ray diffraction and for his applications of his theories to structural investigations of polymers, liquid crystals, peptides and proteins". See also
 Alexei Vasilievich Shubnikov

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1921 births
1996 deaths
Crystallographers
Russian physical chemists
Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow State University alumni