Conference

Leonid Rosenstein, Henry Brenner, Igor Sokolik, Jan Kalinovski, Abram Belkind

Leonid Rosenstein  

          Dr. Rosenstein was a Soviet scientist who entered the RSSL in the late 1970’s and was a co-discoverer in 1979 of a new form of spectroscopy of small particles, namely photophoretic spectroscopy.

Henry Brenner  

          Prof. Brenner is on the Chemistry Faculty and is an expert on the photophysics of the triplet state.  He and I have written several papers together.  We are presently collaborating on the photophysics of singlet and triplet excitons.  Prof. Brenner also served as a consultant in the preparation of the book “Electronic Processes in Organic Crystals.”

Igor Sokolik

 Dr. Sokolik is presently in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dr. Sokolik was formerly a staff scientist at the Institute of Energy Problems of Chemical Physics in Moscow. He carried out seminal experiments with E.L. Frankevich on the effect of weak magnetic fields and microwaves on the interactions of triplet excitons,  polarons and other entities carrying an excess electron spin.  He came to the NYU Chemistry Department as a Visiting Scientist and remained in the United States.  He has made numerous discoveries in organic electroluminescence.   He helped translate the book “Electronic Processes in Organic Crystals” into Russian, and together with Prof. Lewis Rothberg of the University of Rochester, arranged the International Conference in honor of Prof. Martin Pope at the University of Rochester in 1998.