Robert
S. Knox
University
of Rochester
Selected
publications most cited, by field
Excitons
– general
Robert S. Knox, Theory
of Excitons, Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1963. Published as Supplement 5 of Solid State
Physics (F. Seitz and D. Turnbull, editors)
T. S. Rahman and R. S. Knox, Theory
of singlet-triplet exciton fusion, Physica Status Solidi (b) 58, 715-720 (1973)
R. S. Knox and N. Inchauspé, Exciton states in ionic crystals, Phys.
Rev 116, 1093-1099 (1959)
Chemical
Physics – excitation transfer
V. M. Kenkre and R. S. Knox, Generalized-master-equation
theory of excitation transfer, Phys. Rev. B9, 5279-5290 (1974)
V. M. Kenkre and R. S. Knox, Theory
of fast and slow excitation transfer rates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 803-806 (1974)
Robert S. Knox and Demet Gülen, Theory
of polarized fluorescence from molecular pairs: Förster transfer at large
electronic coupling, Photochem. Photobiol. 57,
40-43 (1993)
R. S. Knox, Theory of polarization quenching
by excitation transfer, Physica 39,
361-386 (1968)
Robert S. Knox and Herbert van
Amerongen, Refractive index dependence of the Förster resonance excitation
transfer rate, J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 5289-5293 (2002)
Biological
physics
Thomas H. Foster, Richard S. Murant, Robert G. Bryant, Robert S. Knox, Scott L. Gibson,
and Russell Hilf, Oxygen consumption and diffusion effects in photodynamic therapy,
Radiation Res. 126, 296-303 (1991) Reprinted in the SPIE Milestone Series,
volume 82, Selected papers on Photodynamic Therapy, David Kessel, editor, SPIE
Optical Engineering Press, Bellingham, WA (1993), pp. 511-518.
Mamoru Mimuro,
Tsuenori Nozawa, Naoto Tamai, Keizo
Shimada, Iwao Yamazaki, Bruce P. Wittmershaus, Daniel
C. Brune, Robert E. Blankenship, Su Lin, and Robert
S. Knox, Excitation energy flow in chlorosome antennas
of green photosynthetic bacteria, J. Phys. Chem. 93, 7403-7509 (1989)
R. S. Knox, On the theory of trapping of
excitation in the photosynthetic unit, J. Theoret.
Biology 21, 244-259 (1968)
Robert S. Knox, Thermodynamics
and the primary processes of photosynthesis, Biophysical J. 9, 1351-1362 (1969)
General
physics
Mark F. Bocko, David H. Douglass,
and Robert S. Knox, Observation of frequency shifts of spectral lines due to source
correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58,
2649-2651 (1987)
J. E. Robinson, F. Bassani, R. S. Knox, and J. R. Schrieffer, Screening
correction to the Slater exchange potential, Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 215-217 (1962)
Atomic
and molecular physics
Robert S. Knox, Excited-state
wave functions, excitation energies, and oscillator strengths for argon (3p54s),
Phys. Rev. 110, 375-381 (1958)
Albert Gold and Robert S. Knox, Excited-state
wave functions, excitation energies, and oscillator strengths for Ne (2p53s),
Phys. Rev. 113, 834-839 (1959)
John D. Dow and Robert S. Knox, Excited-state
wave functions, excitation energies, and oscillator strengths for krypton and
xenon, Phys. Rev. 152, 50-56
(1966)
Robert S. Knox and Bryan Q. Spring,
Dipole
strengths in the chlorophylls, Photochem. and
Photobiol. 77,
497-501 (2003)
Condensed
Matter Physics
F. Bassani,
R. S. Knox, and W. B. Fowler, Band structure and electronic properties of
AgCl and AgBr, Phys. Rev. 137, A1217-A1225 (1965)
Robert S. Knox, Configuration
interaction in alkali halide phosphors, Phys. Rev. 115, 1095-1106 (1959).
Reprinted in Selected papers on Phosphors, LEDs, and Scintillators:
Application of Photo-, Cathodo-, Electro-, and
Radioluminescence, edited by Marvin J. Weber (SPIE Optical Engineering Press,
Bellingham, WA, 1998)
R. S. Knox and F. Bassani, Band structure of solid argon, Phys.
Rev. 124, 652-657 (1961)
Dwight C. Burnham, Frederick C.
Brown, and Robert S. Knox, Electron mobility and scattering processes
in AgBr at low temperatures, Phys. Rev. 119, 1560-1570 (1960)
S. D. Druger and R. S. Knox, Theory
of trapped hole centers in rare gas solids, J. Chem. Phys. 50, 3143-3153 (1969)
Favorite
papers – not cited enough!
R. S. Knox, Symmetry distribution of normal
modes in macroscopic crystals, Solid State Comm. 4, 453-454 (1966)
R. S. Knox, S. Nikitine,
and A. Mysyrowicz, Kinetics of biexciton formation
in CuCl, Optics Communications 1, 19-21 (1969)
Robert S. Knox, Localized
and delocalized tunneling states, In Tunneling in Biological Systems (Proceedings of a Colloquium of the
Johnson Research Foundation), ed. by Britton Chance, Don Charles DeVault, Hans
Frauenfelder, Rudolph A. Marcus, J. Robert Schrieffer, and Norman Sutin
(Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1979), pp. 91-94
Robert S. Knox, Chlorophyll
in polar solvents: spectral effects of exciton splitting in “statistical pairs,”
J. Phys. Chem. 98, 7270-7273
(1994)
Robert S. Knox, Electronic
excitation transfer in the photosynthetic unit:
reflections on work of William Arnold, Photosyn. Res., 48, 35-39 (1996)
Denise A. Sawicki and Robert S.
Knox, Universal relationship between emission and absorption of complex
systems: an alternative approach,
Phys. Rev. A 54, 4837-4841 (1996)
Robert S. Knox, Ultrafast processes and biology,
J. Photochem. Photobiol. B:
Biology 49, 81-88 (1999)