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Edgar A. Silinsh |
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Edgar
A. Silinsh (1927-1998}
Prof. Dr. Silinsh was the head of the Organic Semiconductors
Laboratory of the Institute of Physical Energetics of the Latvian
Academy of Sciences. He was
a pioneer in the field of the electronic properties of organic molecular
crystals, and was the author in 1980 of what I consider the
first book that dealt in a focused and clear manner on both the
theory and experiment in this field. He
was interested in every step between the absorption of a photon in an
organic crystal and the production of transport
of carriers in an electric field. He
provided a modification of the Onsager Theory of Geminate Recombination
to account for the effect of the electric field on the initial distribution of separated carriers following the
ionizing event. Prof. Silinsh was also largely responsible for the
translation into Russian of the book “Electronic Processes in Organic
Crystals”. Prof. Silinsh invited me to lecture at the Institute in Riga on electronic processes in organic crystals, and to lecture on the subject as well in Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad.
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