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The first paper about exciting of fluorescence of liquid biphenyl and phenanthren by fast electrons by Lieselott Herforth and Hartmut Kallmann.
Abstract
The first measurements of the fluorescence of liquid organic compounds after excitation with nuclear radiation were published 1948 in a thesis of L. Herforth and a paper by Herforth and Kallmann (1949).
Keywords
biphenyl;electromagnetic radiation;electrons;fluorescence;melting;phenanthrene;ultraviolet radiation;molecular structure;polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons;review;aromatic hydrocarbons;hydrocarbons;measurement;organic compounds;scintillations