Martin J. Buerger

Martin J. Buerger was an American professor, crystallographer, and mineralogist. He was born in Detroit in 1903 and died in Lincoln in 1986. Buerger earned his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as a university teacher. His doctoral advisor was Waldemar Lindgren. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Buerger’s field of work included mineralogy and crystallography. He authored works such as *Vector space and its application in crystal-structure investigation*, *Numerical structure factor tables*, *The photography of the reciprocal lattice*, and *The precession method in X-ray crystallography*. He received the Roebling Medal and the Arthur L. Day Medal. He spoke English.