Clara Brink Shoemaker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Clara Brink Shoemaker

crystallographer

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1921

Place of Birth: Rolde, Drenthe, Netherlands

Date of Death: 30-Sep-2009

Profession: crystallographer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Clara Brink Shoemaker (20 June 1921 in Rolde - 30 September 2009) was a Dutch-born American crystallographer and a senior research professor at Oregon State University.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked on the structure determination of vitamin B12 in the group of Dorothy Hodgkin.
Together with her husband, David Shoemaker, she contributed to the research on transition metal phases and intermetallic compounds.
They were the first to recognize that interstices in tetrahedrally close-packed metal crystals are exclusively tetrahedral and only have four types of coordination polyhedra.