Chemistry in Microtime: Selected Writings on Flash Photolysis, Free Radicals and the Excited State

by George Porter

Overview

This volume contains a selection of the pioneering papers by Nobel Laureate George Porter. It outlines his work on fast reactions, occurring in times from milliseconds to femtoseconds, in photochemistry, photosynthesis and solar energy, and includes the papers which led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 for his work on flash photolysis. Lord Porter, President of the Royal Society from 1985 to 1990, is Chairman of the Centre for Photomolecular Sciences, Imperial College, and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.This book is divided into 11 chapters, each covering an area of Lord Porter's work. Each chapter will contain an introduction by Lord Porter, a selection of his most important papers in that field and a list of his other relevant papers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860940217
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	04/28/1997
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Editorial Reviews

Extracts and full articles are among the 55 selections from Porter's work published between 1967 and 1995. They document the evolution of the scientific technique related to the strobe in a camera in which not the shutter speed but the duration of the light determines how much action can be stopped. He begins with the first descriptions, then reports on applications in photochemistry, spectroscopy, the excited state and photosynthesis on time scales plummeting from milliseconds to femtoseconds. He introduces each of the 11 sections to explain the significance of the developments. Reproduced from the original publications. No index. Distributed in the US by World Scientific. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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