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The Scientific Work of Theodor Förster: A Brief Sketch of his Life and Personality
Author(s) -
Kramer Horst E. A.,
Fischer Peter
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201000733
Subject(s) - excited state , förster resonance energy transfer , work (physics) , excimer , sketch , chemistry , physics , atomic physics , laser , computer science , fluorescence , optics , thermodynamics , algorithm
Out of the wealth of Theodor Förster's scientific work (see picture), three main research fields are discussed: 1) Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), 2) the Förster cycle, linking protolysis and reprotonation of molecules in the excited state (in 1951 still considered unmeasurably fast), 3) excimer formation by association of, for example, an excited with an electronic‐ground‐state pyrene molecule.