Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

Publication Date

2-7-1957

Abstract

The fundamental processes of radiation chemistry and photochemistry are quite parallel, and any consideration of one must include the theory of the other as well. Probably the first work done in photochemistry was that of Stephen Hales on photosynthesis, between 1677 and 1721. This was followed by descriptions of the action of light on silver salts by Schultz, Beccarius, and Scheele. The latter also demonstrated that the action of light on silver chloride varied with the waveleneth of the light. Grotthus, in 1817, stated the first law of photochemistry: Only that light which is absorbed can give rise to a reaction in a system. Draper showed in 1841 that the effect of light on silver chloride was directly proportional to the intensity of the light. Later work on other systems showed deviations from this direct proportionality, and it was found in the early part of the twentieth century that the photochemical effect was dependent upon the intensity or light of a specific wavelength (1).

Project Sponsors

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Sandia Corporation

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Chemistry

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

First Committee Member (Chair)

John Francis Suttle

Second Committee Member

Jesse LeRoy Riebsomer

Third Committee Member

Guido Herman Daub

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