Re: Inventor of fluorescence Ploemopak in running for Nobel Prize + website on his early technology

Posted by Guy Cox-2 on
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There is a historical essay on all this by Ploem and Walter, published by Leica in their series Scientific and Technical Information, Edition CDR 5, pp. 1-16,12/2001.   "Multi-wavelength epi-illumination in fluorescence microscopy"  
http://www.leica-microsystems.com/fileadmin/downloads/Other/Publications/Leica_STI_CDR5_ploem_walter_en.pdf.  

Brumberg is given due credit.   Of course the Iron Curtain meant that Ploem was not originally aware of that work, and the Brumberg and Krylova 1953  paper is in Russian, so may not mean much to most of us even if it can be found.  (Suspect you'd have to use Cyrillic Google to find since English Google doesn't).  

                                                                    Guy

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Subject: Re: Inventor of fluorescence Ploemopak in running for Nobel Prize + website on his early technology

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Hi John

Here is a centenary review of his work....
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134%2FS1062359007020161.pdf
Here is a list of papers that are available for a fee..

http://pubget.com/search?from=18912654&page=1&q=author%3A%22E+M+EM+BRUMBERG%22

perhaps you can get copies via your library?

Cheers Mark

On 20/04/2013, at 5:08 PM, John Oreopoulos <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Mark,
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> Your last posting peaked my curiosity, so I decided to look a bit into this. The best I could come up with was a document by Barry Masters on the history of fluorescence microscopy:
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> http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CEMQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fen.bilkent.edu.tr%2F~physics%2Fnews%2Fmasters%2FELS_Hist_Fl_Micro.pdf&ei=4rlyUe2hLtGp4APHr4GwCg&usg=AFQjCNEW1u-TzRGu5wml8GZ26qGUN9iW3A&sig2=HnzzQ9CvfTkEvfJWVcfCeg&bvm=bv.45512109,d.dmg&cad=rja
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> Both Brumberg and Ploem are mentioned in the context of some very important developments of epi-fluorescence microscopy. By chance, does anyone have a copy of the papers cited involving these authors? (Brumberg 1959, and Ploem 1967).
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> On 2013-04-19, at 5:44 PM, Mark Cannell wrote:
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>> I hope the pioneering work in 1948 of Evengenii Mikhailovich Brumberg is mentioned/considered in this context.
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>> Cheers
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