The work at Hamburg was on insect flight muscle. It is usually quoted as the first x-ray diffraction using a synchrotron. The work is acknowledged as pioneering in John Helliwell's book. Of course the first data collection on a synchrotron was much earlier. A good account can be found here http://xdb.lbl.gov/Section2/Sec_2-2.html
Colin -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DUMAS Philippe (UDS) Sent: 13 March 2013 19:22 To: ccp4bb Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] first use of synchrotron radiation in PX 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, Philippe Dumas
