It looks like the earliest reference to the Debye-Waller factor is from Debye's paper:
Uber den Einfluss der Warmebewegung uf die Interferenzerscheinungen beiu Rontgenstrahlen, Verhandl. deut. phyik. Ges., 15, 678-689 (1913), and the succeeding paper Verhandl. deut. phyik, Ges., 15, 738-752 (1913), and Waller: Die Einwirkung der Warmbewegung der Kristllatome auf Intersitat, Lage, and Scharfe der Rontgenspektrallinein, Ann. Physik, 83, 153-183 (1927). Interestingly, beta was used for the anisotropic Gaussian form of the isotropic Gaussian B-factor. Bernie On Wed, January 24, 2007 9:05 am, Roberto Steiner wrote: > Hi Rajesh, > > I also wondered about that. > Not having been able to find a good explanation in the literature > I thought of it as reducing factor of the *B*ragg peaks. Mhhhh??? > > Then I stopped thinking about it (I now try to call them ADPs) > > > Roberto > > On 24 Jan 2007, at 12:42, Rajesh Kumar Singh wrote: > >> May be too trivial, I was just wondering >> what "B" stands for in the term "B-factor". >> >> Thanks >> >> Rajesh >> >> -- >> Rajesh Kumar Singh >> Institut fur Biochemie >> Universitat Greifswald >> Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4 >> D-17489 Greifswald >> Germany >> >> E.Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Phone: +49-3834- 86 4392 > > --- > Dr. Roberto Steiner > Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics > New Hunt's House > King's College London > Guy's Campus > London, SE1 1UL > Phone +44 (0)20-7848-8216 > Fax +44 (0)20-7848-6435 > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
