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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 1
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    Chapter 2 Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 2
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    Chapter 3 Celebrating the millennium — historical highlights of photosynthesis research, Part 3
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    Chapter 4 History of the word photosynthesis and evolution of its definition
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    Chapter 5 In one era and out the other
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    Chapter 6 Time line of discoveries: anoxygenic bacterial photosynthesis
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    Chapter 7 Discoveries in oxygenic photosynthesis (1727–2003): a perspective
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    Chapter 8 ‘And whose bright presence’ — an appreciation of Robert Hill and his reaction
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    Chapter 9 The contributions of James Franck to photosynthesis research: a tribute
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    Chapter 10 Hydrogen metabolism of green algae: discovery and early research — a tribute to Hans Gaffron and his coworkers
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    Chapter 11 Samuel Ruben’s contributions to research on photosynthesis and bacterial metabolism with radioactive carbon
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    Chapter 12 Contributions of Henrik Lundegårdh
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    Chapter 13 Photosynthetic exciton theory in the 1960s
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    Chapter 14 Excitation energy trapping in anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 15 Fluorescence lifetime, yield, energy transfer and spectrum in photosynthesis, 1950–1960
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    Chapter 16 Visualization of excitation energy transfer processes in plants and algae
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    Chapter 17 Plastoquinone redox control of chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphorylation and distribution of excitation energy between photosystems: discovery, background, implications
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    Chapter 18 Excitation transfer between photosynthetic units: the 1964 experiment
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    Chapter 19 Research on photosynthetic reaction centers from 1932 to 1987
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    Chapter 20 Chlorophyll chemistry before and after crystals of photosynthetic reaction centers
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    Chapter 21 Electron donors and acceptors in the initial steps of photosynthesis in purple bacteria: a personal account
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    Chapter 22 My daily constitutional in Martinsried
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    Chapter 23 The two-electron gate in photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 24 Steps on the way to building blocks, topologies, crystals and X-ray structural analysis of Photosystems I and II of water-oxidizing photosynthesis
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    Chapter 25 The identification of the Photosystem II reaction center: a personal story
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    Chapter 26 The isolated Photosystem II reaction center: first attempts to directly measure the kinetics of primary charge separation
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    Chapter 27 Discovery of pheophytin function in the photosynthetic energy conversion as the primary electron acceptor of Photosystem II
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    Chapter 28 Engine of life and big bang of evolution: a personal perspective
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    Chapter 29 Role of bicarbonate at the acceptor side of Photosystem II
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    Chapter 30 Unraveling the Photosystem I reaction center: a history, or the sum of many efforts
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    Chapter 31 Photosystem I reaction center: past and future
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    Chapter 32 P430: a retrospective, 1971–2001
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    Chapter 33 Apparatus and mechanism of photosynthetic oxygen evolution: a personal perspective
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    Chapter 34 Period-four oscillations of the flash-induced oxygen formation in photosynthesis
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    Chapter 35 Period four oscillations in chlorophyll a fluorescence
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    Chapter 36 Chloride and calcium in Photosystem II: from effects to enigma
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    Chapter 37 The bicarbonate effect, oxygen evolution, and the shadow of Otto Warburg
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    Chapter 38 Early indications for manganese oxidation state changes during photosynthetic oxygen production: a personal account
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    Chapter 39 Purple bacterial light-harvesting complexes: from dreams to structures
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    Chapter 40 The FMO protein
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    Chapter 41 Physical separation of chlorophyll-protein complexes
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    Chapter 42 How the chlorophyll-proteins got their names
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    Chapter 43 Phycobiliproteins and phycobilisomes: the early observations
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    Chapter 44 Discovery and characterization of electron transfer proteins in the photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 45 Membrane-anchored cytochrome c as an electron carrier in photosynthesis and respiration: past, present and future of an unexpected discovery
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    Chapter 46 The Q-cycle — a personal perspective
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    Chapter 47 The isolation of a functional cytochrome b6f complex: from lucky encounter to rewarding experiences
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    Chapter 48 Ironies in photosynthetic electron transport: a personal perspective
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    Chapter 49 The unfinished story of cytochrome f
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    Chapter 50 Early research on the role of plastocyanin in photosynthesis
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    Chapter 51 Irrungen, Wirrungen? The Mehler reaction in relation to cyclic electron transport in C3 plants
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    Chapter 52 Photophosphorylation and the chemiosmotic perspective
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    Chapter 53 Protons, proteins and ATP
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    Chapter 54 On why thylakoids energize ATP formation using either delocalized or localized proton gradients — a Ca2+ mediated role in thylakoid stress responses
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    Chapter 55 The stopped-flow method and chemical intermediates in enzyme reactions — a personal essay
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    Chapter 56 The chequered history of the development and use of simultaneous equations for the accurate determination of chlorophylls a and b
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    Chapter 57 The contribution of photosynthetic pigments to the development of biochemical separation methods: 1900–1980
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    Chapter 58 On some aspects of photosynthesis revealed by photoacoustic studies: a critical evaluation
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    Chapter 59 The history of photosynthetic thermoluminescence
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    Chapter 60 Trails of green alga hydrogen research — from Hans Gaffron to new frontiers
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    Chapter 61 Engineering the chloroplast encoded proteins of Chlamydomonas
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    Chapter 62 Pictorial demonstrations of photosynthesis
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    Chapter 63 Membrane biogenesis in anoxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes
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    Chapter 64 Chloroplast structure: from chlorophyll granules to supra-molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes
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    Chapter 65 Changing concepts about the distribution of Photosystems I and II between grana-appressed and stroma-exposed thylakoid membranes
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    Chapter 66 Chloroplasts in living cells and the string-of-grana concept of chloroplast structure revisited
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    Chapter 67 From chloroplasts to chaperones: how one thing led to another
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    Chapter 68 ‘Every dogma has its day’: a personal look at carbon metabolism in photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 69 Research on carbon dioxide fixation in photosynthetic microorganisms (1971-present)
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    Chapter 70 Nitrogen fixation by photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 71 Following the path of carbon in photosynthesis: a personal story
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    Chapter 72 Mapping the carbon reduction cycle: a personal retrospective
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    Chapter 73 Chloroplasts in envelopes: CO2 fixation by fully functional intact chloroplasts
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    Chapter 74 Along the trail from Fraction I protein to Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase)
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    Chapter 75 The discovery of Rubisco activase — yet another story of serendipity
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    Chapter 76 The ferredoxin/thioredoxin system: from discovery to molecular structures and beyond
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    Chapter 77 How is ferredoxin-NADP reductase involved in the NADP photoreduction of chloroplasts?
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    Chapter 78 C4 photosynthesis: discovery and resolution
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    Chapter 79 Crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis: ‘working the night shift’
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    Chapter 80 Three decades in transport business: studies of metabolite transport in chloroplasts — a personal perspective
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    Chapter 81 The present model for chlororespiration
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    Chapter 82 Affixing the O to Rubisco: discovering the source of photorespiratory glycolate and its regulation
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    Chapter 83 Linking the xanthophyll cycle with thermal energy dissipation
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    Chapter 84 Photoinhibition — a historical perspective
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    Chapter 85 A molecular understanding of complementary chromatic adaptation
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    Chapter 86 Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria from extreme environments
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    Chapter 87 Light-induced behavioral responses (‘phototaxis’) in prokaryotes
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    Chapter 88 The early history of the genetics of photosynthetic bacteria: a personal account
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    Chapter 89 Photosynthesis genes and their expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1: a tribute to my students and associates
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    Chapter 90 Regulation of photosystem synthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus
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    Chapter 91 Photosynthesis research: advances through molecular biology — the beginnings, 1975–1980s and on. . .
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    Chapter 92 The three genomes of Chlamydomonas
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    Chapter 93 History of chloroplast genomics
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    Chapter 94 Gene-targeted and site-directed mutagenesis of photosynthesis genes in cyanobacteria
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    Chapter 95 Thinking about the evolution of photosynthesis
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    Chapter 96 Evolutionary relationships among photosynthetic bacteria
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    Chapter 97 On the natural selection and evolution of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria
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    Chapter 98 Prochlorophyta — a matter of class distinctions
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    Chapter 99 The archaeal concept and the world it lives in: a retrospective
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    Chapter 100 The Laboratory of Photosynthesis and its successors at Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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    Chapter 101 Photosynthesis and the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory
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    Chapter 102 Chlorophyll isolation, structure and function: major landmarks of the early history of research in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
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    Chapter 103 Studies of chlorophyll biosynthesis in Russia
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    Chapter 104 The beginnings of research on biophysics of photosynthesis and initial contributions made by Russian scientists to its development
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    Chapter 105 Photosynthesis research in Greece: a historical snapshot (1960–2001)
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    Chapter 106 Photosynthesis research in India: transition from yield physiology into molecular biology
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    Chapter 107 Photosynthesis research in the People’s Republic of China
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    Chapter 108 A list of personal perspectives with selected quotations, along with lists of tributes, historical notes, Nobel and Kettering awards related to photosynthesis
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    Chapter 109 Passage of a young Indian physical chemist through the world of photosynthesis research at Urbana, Illinois, in the 1960s: a personal essay
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    Chapter 110 The conference at Airlie House in 1963
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    Chapter 111 A list of photosynthesis conferences and of edited books in photosynthesis
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Title
Discoveries in Photosynthesis
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2005
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3324-9
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978-1-4020-3323-0, 978-1-4020-3324-7
Authors

Govindjee, J. Thomas Beatty, Howard Gest, John F. Allen

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Govindjee, J. Thomas Beatty, Howard Gest, John F. Allen

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Country Count As %
United States 2 3%
Japan 2 3%
Belgium 1 1%
Hungary 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Korea, Republic of 1 1%
Unknown 64 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 18%
Student > Bachelor 12 17%
Student > Master 6 8%
Professor 5 7%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 6 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 51%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 14%
Environmental Science 3 4%
Chemistry 3 4%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 12 17%