My personal feelings are that regardless of the origin of the idea, Hugo did
the work that made crystallographic full pattern fitting possible. That
implementation was not just a “programming task” as the minimal capabilities of
computers of the day required significant innovation for memory
My review of Mittemeijer’s book seems to have excited interest in the history
of the “Rietveld” method. I, myself, recall using Alan’s modified program
(incorporating anisotropic displacement parameters, a welcome addition) in the
early days and I saw that many Rietveld programs also
Dear Luca.
Since I administer the Rietveld mailing list, I could have changed the name
years ago when Van Laar and Schenk published their history, with which I
largely sympathise. I didn't, because everyone now calls it "Rietveld
Refinement", a name invented by Terry Sabine, who worked with
I am currently travelling and thus out of office until September 2nd. I will check my emails periodically, but it might take a day or two. If you happen to be at the IUCr come and meet me there!
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Please do NOT attach files to the
Given the involvement of Alan in the early days I would be confident to trust
his view.
So why we don't try to fix a bit the mistake. We could:
- start renaming this list as Loopstra-Rietveld list ;-) ( I would keep the
name Rietveld in hit, first who got the idea, second the programmer)
-
Armel, it's not about you :-) But in your 1988 paper you did not reference
Pawley (1980) and even Rietveld only appeared as #14
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228084768_Ab_Initio_Structure_Determination_of_LiSbWO6_by_X_ray_Powder_Diffraction#fullTextFileContent
But let's not change the
It's a widespread phenomenon. What about America being named for Vespucii
rather than Columbus?
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, 11:49 Le Bail Armel, wrote:
> >And there are other examples. See this brief review of "Whole Pattern
> Fitting - The Pawley Method" (1980) yet few people now attribute this kind
>And there are other examples. See this brief review of "Whole Pattern Fitting - The Pawley Method" (1980) yet few people now attribute this kind of profile refinement to Pawley. http://pd.chem.ucl.ac.uk/pdnn/solve1/pawley.htmFew people ? At least me
