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+Ralf is a crystallographer. He has a degree in Mineralogy
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+(<a href="http://www.mineralogie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/englisch/mineralogie_v2.0_eng.htm">Bochum,
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+Germany</a>), and a Ph.D. in Crystallography
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+(<a href="http://www.kristall.ethz.ch/LFK/">ETH Zurich</a>,
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+Switzerland). Real Mineralogists and Crystallographers run
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+experiments with x-rays and hardware that is not normally
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+associated with C++ and Boost. However, when Ralf kept
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+breaking the expensive experimental equipment too often, he
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+decided that he would cause less damage as a computational
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+crystallographer.
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+Being a scientist, Ralf spent most of his life programming
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+in Fortran, the great grand-father of all good programming
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+languages (if you know Backus-Naur you know the name of the
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+<a href="http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/backus.html">inventor
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+of Fortran</a>).
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+Ralf is a co-author of the
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+<a href="http://cns.csb.yale.edu/">CNS</a>
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+Fortran program that is very
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+popular in structural biology. When he learned that a real
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+programmer can write Fortran in any language, Ralf knew that it
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+was time for him to learn C++. Of course, absorbing four
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+decades of progress in the field of computer science all at
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+once crashed his brain. To be able to deal with the
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+challenge, he spawned two child processes and named them
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+Lisa and Anna. To see Lisa, click on the picture and turn
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+your monitor by 180 degrees around the view axis. (Other
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+pictures of
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+<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Lisa-Roza-Illes/">Lisa</a>
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+and
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+<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Anna-Rhona-Illes/">Anna</a>
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+do not require gymnastics with the monitor.)
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+Right now, Ralf is working for the
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+<a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational Crystallography Initiative</a>
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+at the
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+<a href="http://www.lbl.gov/">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</a>
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+in California.
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+The goal of this initiative is to write a software system for high-throughput
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+protein crystal structure determination, also known as
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+<a href="http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/announcements/psi.html">Structural
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+Genomics</a>.
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+Surprisingly, the gestation period for such a system turns
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+out to be much longer than it was for Lisa and Anna.
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+However, pre-natal diagnosis already revealed that Python
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+and C++ are the parents-to-be. For an ultra-sound image of
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+the new system at its early developmental stage
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+<a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/">click here</a>.
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Beman Dawes
