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Michael Kasha: From Photochemistry and Flowers to Spectroscopy and Music
Author(s) -
Demchenko Alexander P.,
Heldt Józef,
Waluk Jacek,
Chou PiTai,
Sengupta Pradeep K.,
Brizhik Larissa,
del Valle Juan Carlos
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201405222
Subject(s) - passion , subject (documents) , chemistry , photochemistry , psychology , psychotherapist , library science , computer science
A brilliant scientist and an outstanding personality who was one of the founders of modern photochemistry—Michael Kasha—is the subject of this Essay. Kasha's rule and the Kasha effect both bear his name, and he also discovered the chemical production of singlet molecular oxygen, and was a pioneer of excited‐state proton transfer systems. Kasha combined his passion for chemistry and physics with that for music, photography, and botany.