Ewald
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Ewald may refer to any of the following people and concepts:
- People
- Either of the two saints named Ewald, martyrs in Old Saxony about 695.
- Paul Peter Ewald, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction and crystallography.
- Georg Heinrich August von Ewald (November 16, 1803 - May 4, 1875) was a German orientalist, theologian and son-in-law of C.F. Gauss.
- Paul W. Ewald, the evolutionary biologist specializing in the evolution of infectious disease.
- Victor Ewald, the Russian composer.
- Concepts
- The Ewald construction, a method for reconstructing a crystal structure from an x-ray diffraction pattern, or Ewald's sphere, a mathematical tool used in that process.