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<h2>Acta Crystallographica Section A</h2><h3>Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography</h3><h3>0567-7394</h3> <h2>book reviews</h2> Volume 35 Part 2 Pages 347-348 March 1979 <h2> Physics and chemistry of materials with layered structures. Vol. 4. Optical and electrical properties edited by P. A. Lee</h2> G. B. Jensen Acta Cryst. (1979). A35, 347 Dynamical scattering of X-rays in crystals. By Z. G. PINSKER. Pp. xii + 511. Berlin: Springer, 1978. Price DM 86.00, US $39.60. The dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction was developed by Darwin and Ewald immediately after the famous discovery by Friedrich, Knipping and von Laue, and was extended sometime later by von Laue. Very few crystals, however, were at the time perfect enough for extensive verification of the dynamical theory. New interest arose in the 1940's when Borrmann discovered the anomalous transmission effect and von Lane interpreted it using dynamical theory. But it was only in the late 1950's and early 1960's that the interest become more widespread and this coincided with the development of X-ray topographic techniques on the one hand, and crystal-growth techniques for high-perfection crystals on the other. The dynamical theory was then extended to incident spherical waves and a large number of properties of wave-field propagation