Raman Optical Activity - History of Raman Optical Activity

History of Raman Optical Activity

The field began with the doctoral work of Laurence D. Barron with Peter Atkins at the University of Oxford and was later further developed by Barron with David Buckingham at the University of Cambridge.

More developments, including important contributions to the development of practical Raman optical activity instruments, were made by Werner Hug of the University of Friburg, and Lutz Hecht with Laurence Barron at the University of Glasgow.

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