Just to clarify, Jeremy was not being serious, but imagining what an awkward / obnoxious grant reviewer might have said in 1913. But your points would be valuable in rebutting such a view
Pete
On 19 Apr 2013, at 11:28, Navdeep Sidhu wrote:
> Dear Pet,
>
> On the contrary, far as I know, nature seems to require most solids we see around us to be crystalline. And much of the rest is either gaseous or plasma. Hence, by the reasoning proposed, we are led to suspect a different conclusion: that it's studies dealing with the remaining state that have "little general applicability as the requirement for objects to force themselves into" the disordered arrays of the liquid state "is an absurd limitation." (However, I'd support funding it nevertheless.)
>
> Best regards,
> Navdeep
>
>
> ---
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Peter Artymiuk wrote:
>> Another of my colleagues, Jeremy Craven, is an NMR spectroscopist and bioinformatician. He is in referee mode at present and comments:
>>
>>
>>> From: Jeremy Craven <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: 19 April 2013 10:05:18 GMT+01:00
>>> To: Peter Artymiuk <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: Fwd: popular piece on X-ray crystallography
>>>
>>> I suspect this technique will have little general applicability as the requirement for objects to force themselves into ordered arrays is an absurd limitation. I would not support funding it.
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> I fear he may be right
>>
>> best wishes
>> Pet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19 Apr 2013, at 09:53, David Briggs wrote:
>>
>>> Following on from that - readers may be interested in Stephen Curry's
>>> post in the Guardian, regarding the Crystallography exhibit at the
>>> London Science Museum.
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2013/apr/19/1
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> ============================
>>> David C. Briggs PhD
>>> http://about.me/david_briggs
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 April 2013 09:44, Peter Artymiuk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> In Britain there is a free newspaper that you can pick up on buses called the Metro. My colleague Geoff Ford pointed out this short feature on the history X-ray crystallography in last Monday's Metro newspaper. I think it's rather good.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/blog/2013/04/14/conquering-realm-invisible
>>>>
>>>> best wishes
>>>> Pete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Prof Peter Artymiuk
>>>> Krebs Institute
>>>> Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
>>>> University of Sheffield
>>>> Sheffield
>>>> S10 2TN
>>>> ENGLAND
>
>
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> Navdeep Sidhu
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Department of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
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