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Dear All,
allow me to add my comments as a non-protein crystallographer. As
someone who does crystallography of minerals and small molecules I
must admit that I often recieve the same sort of "its all routine"
response that protein crystallographers do, from both scientists and
funding agencies. But what saddens me is that some individual protein
crystallographers have the same view of us non-protein people,
whether mineralogists, chemists, high-pressure people etc etc. We
should first put our own house in order, and promote crystallography
as a whole as the only science that provides truth with a well-defined esd.
Nonetheless, I second all of James Foadi's comments. As an example, I
would add that our crystallography group is continually overwhelmed
by these same scientists asking us to solve structures essential to
their research because they are unable to do this allegedly "routine
work" and, further more, don't actually understand what we give them
in a crystal structure anyway!
As a consequence we divide the world into two groups:
Crystallographers and Idiots. It seems the idiots are also in charge
of funding agencies.
Ross Angel
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Ross Angel
Research Professor in Crystallography
Crystallography Laboratory Tel: 540-231-7974
Dept. Geosciences Fax: 540-231-3386
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA 24060-0420 USA http://www.crystal.vt.edu/crystal/
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