My photo gallery

School and High school reminiscence.

A lot of fun with soapbox cars (after school) and funny drawings (during school).

First experiments at the ILL.

(1972)

Not yet any neutrons at that time but LI5, an four-circle X-ray diffractometer Siemens AED.
It was driven by a PDP8 and the data input was through a Teletype terminal.
With Michel Thomas, we fought a lot with a gas flow cryostat.

Building the neutron diffractometer D8 at the ILL.

(1973)

The proud team of the neutron diffractometer D8 at the ILL.

(1973)

(left: Michel Thomas, right: Alain Filhol)

My son Fabien.

(1980)

Refilling the helium cryostat on D15.

(1984)

D15 is a neutron normal-beam diffractometer build by Michel Thomas.

Science festival in Grenoble.

(1992)

Students agglutinated around a Macintosh, a big success indeed! They are discovering "Video_ILL_interactive" an early multimedia presentation of the ILL. An Hypercard™ engine was used to drive C and Pascal interactive simulations of neutron experiments and Magic™ animations (A.Filhol, Jean de Combret, Yves Baulac, Albert Wright).

Me as seen by my son.

(1994)

Me at Apple Expo 98 in Paris.

(1998)

If Quicktime is installed use the cursor to make me spin.

(Courtesy of Brieuc Segalen).

My son "Fab-the-genius" is growing.

(1999)

My friends Jacques (U. St Etienne) and Nénesse (U.Grenoble) in my office.

(1999)

Together we developped ABFfit (neutron powder diffraction data analysis), MacSurvival (survival analysis for physicians), ABCstat (statistical analysis), three programs for Mac OS classical with advanced statistical algorithms.