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Relaxation of Electronic Excitation in Biology: The Initial Processing of Photon Energy and Information

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Relaxation of Elementary Excitations

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A review of the qualitative features of electronic excitation relaxation processes important to biological physics is given, with special emphasis on photosynthesis.

Research supported in part by National Science Foundation grant PCM-77-20230. The author thanks the Japan Society for Promotion of Science for partial support in the preparation and presentation of this paper.

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    R. S. Knox

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    Ryogo Kubo

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Knox, R.S. (1980). Relaxation of Electronic Excitation in Biology: The Initial Processing of Photon Energy and Information. In: Kubo, R., Hanamura, E. (eds) Relaxation of Elementary Excitations. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81482-2_11

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