[lm-announce] (ANOTHER) GREAT MICROSCOPY SEMINAR!!!-- BOB CLEGG, THURSDAY, JAN 15

[Jason Swedlow]

Dear All-

The following seminar will be of interest to anyone thinking about  
using FRET.

Dr Bob Clegg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, will give  
a seminar in the WTB Seminar Rooms at 16.30 pm

Thursday 15 Jan at 16.30-17.30. WTB seminar room (back half):

"Energy transfer from the dark ages through enlightenment"

The development of our basic understanding of how energy is  
transferred non-radiatively between two molecules, nowadays known as  
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), took place at an exciting  
historical time when the foundations of Physics were being overturned  
and paradigms were rapidly changing. A historical excursion through  
the major scientific events shows how concepts and experimental  
results in different fields of research, such as quantum mechanics and  
photosynthesis, were eventually woven together to form our present day  
understanding of FRET. We will follow the progression of ideas in this  
field up to and including the landmark contributions of Theodore  
Förster in 1946-1948. His theory has had an enormous impact on  
physics, chemistry and biology.

Cheers,

Jason


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