Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

In 1962, Dr. Olga Kennard OBE FRS set up a chemical crystallography group within the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

This new headquarters was designed by the Danish architect Professor Erik Christian Sørensen and won The Sunday Times Building of the Year Award in 1993.

[2] The CCDC still retains very close links as a University Partner Institution that trains students for postgraduate research degrees but from 1987 became an independent company.

[2] The staff at the CCDC curate the database of small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structures and make these available for download by the public.

[citation needed] Mercury is a crystal structure visualizer tool, of which later versions released in 2015 and later provide the functionality to generate 3D prints.