Template talk:Crystallography

What is the criteria for adding names?[edit]

What is the criteria for adding names to this template? Obviously a Nobel or the Ewald prize should qualify, but some curation on recent 21st century additions looks like it is needed. Ldm1954 (talk) 22:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, thanks for raising this issue @Ldm1954, Dr. Marks. The influential crystallographers in the early 21st-century category is very incomplete and likely very biased. If someone got a prestigious award they certainly qualify, but these awards tend to credit the original discovery made 30-50 years in the past, so the awardee would better be included in the prior time bracket, unless it's some award that targets rising stars. I have the impression that we can only have a finalized list for the early 21st-century category in the 2040s, once the impacts of the discoveries made years before are consolidated into common knowledge in the community. We'd love to hear your suggestions and review your edits. A lot of the more recent crystallographers don't yet have a biography page on Wikipedia. VaudevillianScientist (talk) 06:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My thoughts:

If they have no page, then except in special cases they don't belong.
They must have received multiple top awards from IUCr, ACA, ECA and/or similar in crystallography in the broadest definition.
In the current list:

Yes: John Spence, Henry Chapman, Janus Hadju, Wayne Hendrickson

No: Jianwei Miao, Tamir Gonen, Ilme Schlifhting

Marginal: Ian K. Robinson, Sjirs Scheres, Eva Nogales, Nikolaus Grigorieff

Some very big names are missing: Sumio Ijima, Staff van Tenderloo, Michael O'Keeffe, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson Ldm1954 (talk) 08:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]