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.
>
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> 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 <[log in to unmask]> 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
>>>> --
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>>>>
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