Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry

Carolina Henriette MacGillavry (22 January 1904 – 9 May 1993) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer. She is known for her discoveries on the use of diffraction in crystallography.

Biography MacGillavry (nicknamed "Mac") was born on 22 January 1904, in Amsterdam, the second of six children in an intellectual family (her father was a brain surgeon, her mother a teacher).

In 1948, she worked with Raymond Pepinsky in Auburn, Alabama, for a year. The Dutch company Philips also grew interested in her work on the chemistry of solids.

In 1950, she became the first woman to be appointed to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the same year she became a professor at the University of Amsterdam and she retired in 1972. The book was instrumental in drawing international attention to the artist.

Personal life MacGillavry married the oto-rhino-laryngologist J. H. Nieuwenhuijsen in 1968.

She died 9 May 1993, aged 89, in Amsterdam, and is buried in Utrecht.

A street in Watergraafsmeer, the Netherlands, is named in her honor.