2014: International Year of Crystallography

A downloadable calendar and related images was distributed to celebrate IYCr.

2014 has been declared the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr).

IYCr2014 commemorates the centennial of X-ray diffraction and celebrates the important role of crystallography in the modern world.

The wwPDB has created a 2014 calendar that illustrates how X-ray crystallography enables our understanding of biology at the atomic level.

Full Calendar Downloads

• High resolution PDF (22.4 MB)
• Low resolution PDF (13.3 MB)
• Calendar images and text in Powerpoint (7 MB)

Wallpaper Downloads

Each month's image is available to be used for desktop wallpaper, or for reuse (email [email protected] for permission and citation information).

The zip files below contain all 12 months as individual JPGs, sized as noted, with or without the calendar embedded on the image.

• Image only, sized: 2048x1536 | 2520x1575 | 2560x1440
• Image with calendar, sized: 2048x1536 | 2520x1575 | 2560x1440