>Gauss and Legendre's work shows that science is not performed by individuals >in a vacuum. >Now we call it "Least Squares Refinement" and not "Gauss >Refinement".
It seems that the basic collision is in the absence of strict and commonly accepted definition of the 'Rietveld Method' term. Does the Rietveld method imply: 1) a general concept of structure refinement using powder data in their original form of scanned profile, or 2) just one (of many possible) specific realization of this concept as a least squares optimization of weighted profile difference? I'd prefer the second variant, which may also help resolving the issue of credits and citations. ******************************************************* Leonid A. Solovyov Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology 660036, Akademgorodok 50/24, Krasnoyarsk, Russia http://sites.google.com/site/solovyovleonid ******************************************************* On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 11:52:03 AM GMT+7, Alan Hewat <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> wrote: > credit should be given to Rietveld for developing and distributing his >software No-one is disputing that, even if Rietveld himself never gave credit >to anyone else. In Rietveld (1969) he merely `thanks Drs B. O. Loopstra and >B. van Laar for their suggestions and helpful criticism'. Yet according to >vL&S he had been hired as a postdoc to contribute to a problem they had been >working on.. His home page is an extreme example, where others are only >credited for their hommage to him. Gauss and Legendre's work shows that science is not performed by individuals in a vacuum. Now we call it "Least Squares Refinement" and not "Gauss Refinement". ______________________________________________ Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics, Grenoble, FRANCE <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> +33.476.98.41.68 http://www.NeutronOptics.com/hewat ______________________________________________++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please do NOT attach files to the whole list <alan.he...@neutronoptics.com> Send commands to <lists...@ill.fr> eg: HELP as the subject with no body text The Rietveld_L list archive is on http://www.mail-archive.com/rietveld_l@ill.fr/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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