UNESCO and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are responsible for this event.
The opening ceremony of the International Year of Crystallography was held in Paris on 20 and 21 January 2014.
[1] Many activities will follow to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography all over the world.
[1] The event drew the attention of the BBC[2] and the Spanish newspaper El País.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, North Korea, Mexico, Moldavia, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland issued special stamps for the occasion.