Hi Gerard That's a lovely picture - many thanks. I haven't seen Thierry for a long time - how is he? Did I miss him in Oviedo?
On 3 Dec 2018, at 09:05, Gerard Bricogne wrote: > Dear Harry, > > Your last sentence below made me think that you might well be > interested in this detector, the Mark II multiwire chamber that was > built by Georges Charpak at CERN for Roger Fourme and Richard Kahn at > LURE. It was this detector that enticed me to go and work at LURE, and > it was in order to create appropriate software for it that I organised > and ran the EEC Area Detector Software Workshop (1986-1989) that is > still quoted nowadays as the inspiration for the DIALS project. > > It was on this detector that Wayne Hendrickson came to collect a > MAD dataset on a Holmium derivative (I think) of Bill Weiss's mannose > binding protein, using the re-engineered MADNESS software written > during the Workshop (it was fashionable for everything to be called > MAD in those days ...) . The monochromator was not very well behaved > and produced a continuous drift in wavelength that had to be tracked > as part of the subsequent phase calculations, but the detector itself > performed superbly. Unfortunately it was limited by its technology to > an overall counting rate of about 500k counts/second. > > I hope this will enhance your collection of obsolete detectors. > This one was a unique copy. I want to thank Thierry Prangé for sending > me this picture during the summer. > > > With best wishes, > > Gerard. > > -- > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:48:07PM +0000, Harry Powell wrote: >> Hi Elspeth >> >> That's brilliant - no, it's not too late by any means. Photos of other >> obsolete detectors are also welcome! >> >> >> On 27 Nov 2018, at 12:40, Elspeth Garman wrote: >> >>> I have one of the LMB Cambridge one. >>> Can dig it out for you but not till Monday. Is that too late? >>> Elspeth >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On 27 Nov 2018, at 12:35, Harry Powell >>> <0000193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I was wondering if anyone out there has a decent-quality photograph of an >>>> Enraf-Nonius FAST detector that I could use? I believe that one was >>>> installed at SRS Daresbury in 1983... >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> -- >>>> Dr Harry Powell >>>> >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > -- > > =============================================================== > * * > * Gerard Bricogne g...@globalphasing.com * > * * > * Global Phasing Ltd. * > * Sheraton House, Castle Park Tel: +44-(0)1223-353033 * > * Cambridge CB3 0AX, UK Fax: +44-(0)1223-366889 * > * * > =============================================================== > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > <pénélope-II.jpg> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
