As Alan wrote recently, this could be a question of manpower.
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>How about some woman-power!
The scientist in charge of our high resolution powder diffractometer
D2B is indeed a woman - Dr Emmanuelle Suard. We have two other
women scientists in the group, and have just appointed a fourth !
Jaap wrote :
>With regard to the "brown envelope" technique. I am not such a fan of
>that. It is very hard for a beam line scientist the know whether the data
>collected are as desired, have a good enough s/r ratio etc, which details
>to look for. In addition, the last few years when we went we h
Alan H. wrote :
>Yes our machines are largely automatic, but our people don't have
>much spare time for running Armel's samples if he can't come himself,
>especially since half our scientists are on fixed term contracts and
>looking for their next job.
Anyway, I have scarcely a sample of my o
>How about some woman-power!
You are welcome ! Neutrons see accurately all kind of matter,
light or heavy, male or female.
Best,
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/
On Armel's point on using the internet.
The big microscopy centres seem to be going big time for
TelePresence/Collaboratories where collaborators and users
can routinely use the internet rather than expensively hopping
on and off planes to interactively make use of the eqiupmen:
http://tpm.a
Alan H. wrote :
>The manpower problem is not that no-one is willing to do it, but just
>that we don't have many scientists at ILL - 52 total for 25+ machines.
>This means 2 (including me) for each of our 2 main powder diffractometers,
>with 2-3 different user groups on each machine, each week !
