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Old 26-01-2011, 02:51 PM
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The first time I went to the synchrotron in Chicago I had a very large argument about the size of their beam. It took four years before they agreed with me. That the beam size should be about the size of the crystal. Any extraneous xrays not hitting the crystal would just add noise!

When they finally agreed a few people had been moved sideways including number one.

The real loss was the time due to stupidity and stubborness.

Bert
Management never likes to be proven wrong, and it's even worse when management is made up of those scientists whose whole raison detre is the project you're working on. You showed them up and they resented it, so since they were in a position of power, they exercised it by shoving you sideways.
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