And indeed this experiment was done properly ... in a suit and tie! http://www.embl-hamburg.de/aboutus/general_information/HH_about/history/HH-holmes.jpg
A. PS The journal is indeed a bit obscure ... On 13 Mar 2013, at 20:22, DUMAS Philippe (UDS) wrote: > Jean Witz (now deceased) once told me that the following paper is the first > one mentionning data "collection" on a synchrotron. > The journal is not really "obscure" and the paper should easily be found. > The work was done in Germany, if I remember well. > > G. Rosenbaum, K.C. Holmes and J. Witz, Synchrotron radiation as a source for > X-ray diffraction, Nature, 230, 434-437 (1971). > > Philippe Dumas
