Acknowledgements
I have turned to many friends and colleagues for help in converting a rough draft into
the final product. I especially thank Graham George, Frank deGroot, Ercan Alp,
David Attwood, Kwang-Je Kim, and Ingolf Lindau for looking at the draft manuscript and making helpful comments and corrections. They are not to blame for the
errors that persist. For the preparation of the book, I thankfuly acknowledge expert
help with figures from both Birgit Deckers and Kung-Min (Leo) Lin. I am grateful to
the Chemistry Department at Williams College (especially Amy Gehring, Dave
Richardson, and Jay Thoman) for providing a wonderful venue (including the now
departed Bronfman library) for writing a book. I also thank Jay Pasachoff for the use
of his house as another place to work productively in Williamstown.
As far as learning about X-rays, I thank Keith Hodgson, Seb Doniach, Brian
Kincaid, George Brown, Peter Eisenberger, and Herman Winick for advice during
my early days with EXAFS. Later, Jerry Hastings and Peter Siddons showed me how
to do proper X-ray fluorescence and inelastic scattering experiments, while my
introduction to soft X-rays and XMCD came from C. T. Chen, George Sawatzky,
Francesco Sette, and John Fuggle. When I embarked on nuclear adventures, Ercan
Alp, Yoshitaka Yoda, and Uwe Bergman were there to help. I have also depended on
Helmut Wiedemann for his expertise about machine physics and Orren Tench for
many years of advice about X-ray detectors. And of course, none of this would have
been possible without many years of support from DOE, NSF, and NIH and beam
time from SSRP/SSRL, NSLS, ALS, APS, ESRF, PETRA-III, UVSOR, KEK-AR,
and SPring-8. I thank all of the students and postdocs who spent long hours at the
beamlines while I went home to bed. They were a joy to work with and helped make
this journey possible. Finally, I thank my wife, Sybil, for editing numerous papers
and proposals over the years and for proofing the galleys of this book with exquisite
attention to detail.
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I have turned to many friends and colleagues for help in converting a rough draft into
the final product. I especially thank Graham George, Frank deGroot, Ercan Alp,
David Attwood, Kwang-Je Kim, and Ingolf Lindau for looking at the draft manuscript and making helpful comments and corrections. They are not to blame for the
errors that persist. For the preparation of the book, I thankfuly acknowledge expert
help with figures from both Birgit Deckers and Kung-Min (Leo) Lin. I am grateful to
the Chemistry Department at Williams College (especially Amy Gehring, Dave
Richardson, and Jay Thoman) for providing a wonderful venue (including the now
departed Bronfman library) for writing a book. I also thank Jay Pasachoff for the use
of his house as another place to work productively in Williamstown.
As far as learning about X-rays, I thank Keith Hodgson, Seb Doniach, Brian
Kincaid, George Brown, Peter Eisenberger, and Herman Winick for advice during
my early days with EXAFS. Later, Jerry Hastings and Peter Siddons showed me how
to do proper X-ray fluorescence and inelastic scattering experiments, while my
introduction to soft X-rays and XMCD came from C. T. Chen, George Sawatzky,
Francesco Sette, and John Fuggle. When I embarked on nuclear adventures, Ercan
Alp, Yoshitaka Yoda, and Uwe Bergman were there to help. I have also depended on
Helmut Wiedemann for his expertise about machine physics and Orren Tench for
many years of advice about X-ray detectors. And of course, none of this would have
been possible without many years of support from DOE, NSF, and NIH and beam
time from SSRP/SSRL, NSLS, ALS, APS, ESRF, PETRA-III, UVSOR, KEK-AR,
and SPring-8. I thank all of the students and postdocs who spent long hours at the
beamlines while I went home to bed. They were a joy to work with and helped make
this journey possible. Finally, I thank my wife, Sybil, for editing numerous papers
and proposals over the years and for proofing the galleys of this book with exquisite
attention to detail.
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