Charles E. Swenberg

Charles E. Swenberg  (1940-1999)  

          Charles E. Swenberg, whose career spanned faculty positions in the Physics Department at New York University and George Mason University, and a managerial position as head of the Division of Radiobiology and Radiation Biochemistry Department at the Armed Forces Radioibiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, was my brilliant theorist collaborator on the two books, “Electronic Processes in Organic Crystals” in 1982, and “Electronic Processes in Organic Crystals and Polymers” in 1999.  He was also a co-author with me on several papers involving exciton dynamics, particularly those capitalizing on the validation of his prediction that singlet exciton fission into two triplet excitons was highly allowed.  He was my close associate and friend for more than twenty years.