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| 38 | "5" width="100" height="134"></a> Ralf is a crystallographer. He has a |
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| 39 | degree in Mineralogy (<a href= |
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| 40 | "http://www.mineralogie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/eng/index.html">Bochum, |
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| 41 | Germany</a>), and a Ph.D. in Crystallography (<a href= |
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| 42 | "http://www.crystal.mat.ethz.ch/Intro/lfkcry">ETH Zurich</a> , |
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| 43 | Switzerland). Real Mineralogists and Crystallographers run experiments with |
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| 44 | x-rays and hardware that is not normally associated with C++ and Boost. |
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| 45 | However, when Ralf kept breaking the expensive experimental equipment too |
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| 46 | often, he decided that he would cause less damage as a computational |
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| 47 | crystallographer.</p> |
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| 49 | <p>Being a scientist, Ralf spent most of his life programming in Fortran, |
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| 50 | the great grand-father of all good programming languages (if you know |
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| 51 | Backus-Naur you know the name of the <a href= |
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| 52 | "http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Backus.html">inventor |
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| 53 | of Fortran</a>). Ralf is a co-author of the <a href= |
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| 54 | "http://cns.csb.yale.edu/">CNS</a> Fortran program that is very popular in |
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| 55 | structural biology. When he learned that a real programmer can write |
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| 56 | Fortran in any language, Ralf knew that it was time for him to learn C++. |
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| 57 | Of course, absorbing four decades of progress in the field of computer |
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| 58 | science all at once crashed his brain. To be able to deal with the |
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| 59 | challenge, he spawned two child processes and named them Lisa and Anna. To |
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| 60 | see Lisa, click on the picture and turn your monitor by 180 degrees around |
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| 61 | the view axis. (Other pictures of <a href= |
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| 62 | "http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Lisa-Roza-Illes/">Lisa</a> and <a href= |
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| 63 | "http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Anna-Rhona-Illes/">Anna</a> do not require |
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| 64 | gymnastics with the monitor.)</p> |
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| 66 | <p>Right now, Ralf is working for the <a href= |
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| 67 | "http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational Crystallography Initiative</a> at the |
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| 68 | <a href="http://www.lbl.gov/">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a> in |
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| 69 | California. The goal of this initiative is to write a software system for |
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| 70 | high-throughput protein crystal structure determination, also known as |
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| 71 | <a href="http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/announcements/psi.html">Structural |
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| 72 | Genomics</a>. Surprisingly, the gestation period for such a system turns |
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| 73 | out to be much longer than it was for Lisa and Anna. However, pre-natal |
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| 74 | diagnosis already revealed that Python and C++ are the parents-to-be. For |
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| 75 | an ultra-sound image of the new system at its early developmental stage |
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| 76 | <a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/">click here</a>.<br clear="all"></p> |
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| 83 | <p>Revised |
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| 84 | <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->11 |
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| 85 | November, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39357" --></p> |
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| 87 | <p><i>Copyright © 2001 Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve</i></p> |
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| 89 | <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See |
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| 90 | accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy |
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| 91 | at <a href= |
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| 92 | "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p> |
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