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Warren Lee Butler
Warren Lee Butler
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season was to become one of Warren Butler's crowning achievements. Last student of Nobel physicist lames Franck, Butler chose to unclerstanc!
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Winslow Briggs recalls a macabre scene illuminates! by a green light source in the laboratory: Butler with his arm up to the elbow in a huge clewar of liquic!
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out at the memorial service for Butler: The interactions of radiation with matter were quite well understood in the '30s and it seemed likely that Franck, fascinated by the problem of photosynthesis and Delbruck by the effect of X-rays in producing genetic mutations, found that radiation provided the means to introduce the elegance of Quantum Physics into the major problems of biology. However, biology being a complex science is more directly related to chemistry than to physics.
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their problems in demonstrating the reality of their "pigment of the imagination." He creclitec! Hendricks with "probably the boldest and most brilliant single stroke in the history of plant physiology." Butler hac!
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their lancimark paper ("Detection, Assay, en c! Preliminary Purif;cation of the Pigment Controlling Photoresponsive Development of Plants")
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useful absorption spectra of clense light-scattering samples like intact tissues en c! thick homogenates.
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The lecture hall was full. Hendricks talked for thirty minutes giving background .
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the mathematical simplicity of plotting the fourth derivatives of spectral curves. His "fourth derivative spectrometry" was put to good use in resolving spectrally vicinal components.
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Thus, the low potential form can accept electrons clirectly from the reclucec! primary acceptor, pheophytin, the reaction center of PS II, bincling a proton strongly when in the reclucec!
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that the cytochrome b-557 might be a component in the signal transduction chain very close to the primary photoreceptor flavin. After the hemoflavoprotein nitrate recluctase hac!
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The achievements in blue light research of Warren Butler and his group included application of the biophysical approach to the search for blue light photoreceptors, the technical refinement that allowed! detection of small absorbance changes in live, clense samples, en c!
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the enthusiasm of his students and colleagues, whose appreciation grows with time. AM INDEBTED to the many thoughtful statements by speakers at a memorial service honoring Warren Butler on June 28, 1984, the obituary memorials published by Professor Helga Ninnemann, and the tribute volume published by "The Japanese Students of Professor Warren Butler," Hidoyuki Matsuda and Kimikyuki Satoh, editors, for much of the material presented here.
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WARREN LEE BUTLER CHRONOLOGY 71 1925 Born in Yakima, Washington, on January 28 1943-46 U.S. Army Infantry 1949 B.A., physics, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 1951 Marries!
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Detection, assay and preliminary purification of the pigment controlling photoresponsive development of plants.
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Brody. Photoreceptor pigment for blue light responses in Neurospora crassa.
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The superoxide anion as electron donor to the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Photochem.
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