Excited States of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

The choice of title for this collective volume reflects the desire of the editors and authors to make clear that, while the bulk of the material is concerned with luminescence, other aspects of the excited state have not been excluded. In the five years which have elapsed since the publication of the classical monograph of Konev, a wealth of new information has ap­ peared on the emission properties of proteins and nucleic acids. Indeed, since new publications in this area appear to be proli...