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<p><a href="http://boost.sourceforge.net/photos/ralf_w_grosse_kunstleve.jpg"><img src="http://boost.sourceforge.net/photos/ralf_w_grosse_kunstleve_sm.jpg" alt="ralf_w_grosse_kunstleve.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="5" width="100" height="134"></a>
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Ralf is a crystallographer. He has a degree in Mineralogy (<a href="http://www.mineralogie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/eng/index.html">Bochum,
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Germany</a>), and a Ph.D. in Crystallography (<a href="http://www.crystal.mat.ethz.ch/Intro/lfkcry">ETH
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Zurich</a>
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, Switzerland). Real Mineralogists and Crystallographers run experiments with
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x-rays and hardware that is not normally associated with C++ and Boost.
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However, when Ralf kept breaking the expensive experimental equipment too
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often, he 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 in Fortran, the
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great grand-father of all good programming languages (if you know Backus-Naur
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you know the name of the <a href="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Backus.html">
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inventor of Fortran</a>). Ralf is a co-author of the <a href="http://cns.csb.yale.edu/">
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CNS</a> Fortran program that is very popular in structural biology. When he
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learned that a real programmer can write Fortran in any language, Ralf knew
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that it was time for him to learn C++. Of course, absorbing four decades of
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progress in the field of computer science all at once crashed his brain. To be
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able to deal with the 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 your monitor by 180
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degrees around the view axis. (Other pictures of <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/Lisa-Roza-Illes/">
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Lisa</a> and <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 <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational
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Crystallography Initiative</a> at the <a href="http://www.lbl.gov/">Lawrence
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Berkeley National Laboratory</a> in California. The goal of this initiative
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is to write a software system for high-throughput protein crystal structure
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determination, also known as <a href="http://www.nigms.nih.gov/news/announcements/psi.html">
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Structural Genomics</a>. Surprisingly, the gestation period for such a system
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turns out to be much longer than it was for Lisa and Anna. However, pre-natal
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diagnosis already revealed that Python and C++ are the parents-to-be. For an
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ultra-sound image of the new system at its early developmental stage <a href="http://cctbx.sourceforge.net/">
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click here</a>
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