I won't lie, I was thrilled the first time I saw the holes in aromatic rings in electron density from my experiment. But until the very end of last century, X-

I won't lie, I was thrilled the first time I saw the holes in aromatic rings in electron density from my experiment. But until the very end of last century, X-ray crystallography was still difficult enough to be a full-time occupation and a single crystal structure was a PhD thesis. In my experience that kind of narrow focus becomes self-propagating whether or not the method generates beautiful figures.