Famed Bulgarian physicists. I. St. Petroff's Goettingen research of the photostimulated interconversions of color centers in alkali halides: the discovery of the photostimulated aggregation
| dc.creator | Georgiev, Mladen | |
| dc.date | 2008-01-08 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:53:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:53:27Z | |
| dc.description | This essay tells briefly of the life and work of one of the most successful scientists originating from a Balkan settlement whose name and popularity have greatly exceeded its realm. The word is of a discovery during WWII of the photostimulated aggregation of the F centers (else alkali atoms) dissolved from the vapor into an alkali halide crystal. Using optical absorption techniques while a grantee of Humboldt's Foundation in Goettingen, Germany between 1943-1944, he found new absorption bands pertaining to small-size F center aggregates and followed their interconversions. A primary photochemical solid state reaction was evidenced for the first time leading to nanoscale products. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages with 3 figures and 1 picture, all pdf format | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1327 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1327 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/145627 | |
| dc.subject | History and Philosophy of Physics | |
| dc.subject | Chemical Physics | |
| dc.title | Famed Bulgarian physicists. I. St. Petroff's Goettingen research of the photostimulated interconversions of color centers in alkali halides: the discovery of the photostimulated aggregation | |
| dc.type | text |